FAIR DEAL?: The Canadian Supreme Court was asked to decide what a board must consider in a buyout, after a lower court said bondholders' rights had been trampled
BCE Inc on Friday won the right to go ahead with the largest leveraged buyout in history, a US$35 billion deal that the telecommunications company's bondholders fought, saying it would reduce their holdings to junk.

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Oil powers and consumers haggled yesterday over how much to blame market speculators for the spectacular rise in crude prices ahead of a summit on the energy crisis, officials said.

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US steel pipe manufacturers, who have been battling a surge in imports from China, won a major victory on Friday when the International Trade Commission cleared the way for the imposition of stiff penalty tariffs for the next five years.

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'THE BABY': The Small Scale Experimental Machine filled a laboratory but could not compete with a modern calculator and took 52 minutes to solve its first math problem
Weighing in at more than 1 tonne and comprising 1,500 valves and miles of wiring, it is not what most people would recognize as a computer.

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