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Bell Canada Enterprises Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results (3120 words) |
 | BCE generated full year 2003 free cash flow(3) of $1.6 billion, an improvement of $2.5 billion, which allowed the company to reduce net debt by almost $2 billion. |
 | BCE Emergis also began to present its U.S. E-Health unit as a discontinued operation, due to the impending sale of this unit. |
 | BCE's 2003 Fourth Quarter Shareholder Report is also available on the Web site maintained by the Canadian securities regulators at www.sedar.com. |
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 | 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. |