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Food stocks mixed on news of Kraft bid for Cadbury

Sep. 8, 2009
Shares of food makers were mixed in Tuesday trading after Kraft announced a bid to buy British candy and drink maker Cadbury PLC for $16.7 billion in stock and cash. Cadbury rejected the offer, opening the possibility that other suitors will enter the fray....
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler