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TheStreet.com: BCE Makes $1.58 Billion bid for Canadian TV Network (476 words) |
 | BCE, Canada's largest telecommunications company, said it wanted to buy CTV to acquire Canadian local and national content for the joint-venture Web portal the company has set up with Lycos (LCOS:Nasdaq - news) called Simpatico-Lycos. |
| BCE said its bid is contingent on approval of the Netstar deal. |
| BCE said the proposal is conditional on 50% of common shares being tendered to the offer, approval by Canada's telecommunications regulatory agency, agreement with CTV over an Internet distribution arrangement, and the abandonment of CTV's poison pill plan. |
| romhist.html (1155 words) |
| Third Punic War 149-146 BCE started because the Numidian king Masinissa provoked Carthage into a war not approved by Rome; Carthage was destroyed and razed by the Romans and Carthaginian territory became the Roman province of Africa. |
| The Gracchi brothers (Tiberius and Gaius) began a reform movement to redistribute senatorial lands to the landless poor; Tiberius was slain in 133 BCE. |
| In 31 BCE Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in the East. |
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