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Roche Adds to Its Offer to Purchase Genentech

Mar. 6, 2009
Analysts said the new $93-a-share offer was likely to entice many more Genentech shareholders to tender their shares.
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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