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Roche Agrees to Buy Genentech for $46.8 Billion

Mar. 12, 2009
The Swiss drug giant Roche Holding agreed to buy out the shareholders of Genentech for $95 a share, ending an effort to take over the U.S. biotechnology company.
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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