1.   By voting no, the preferred shareholders could derail the merger.

2.   In Portland, Maine, and several other cities, proposed mergers have been derailed by failure to agree on reproductive health issues.

3.   Instead, he faces an antitrust battle before the Federal Communications Commission -- an agency that rarely derails mergers on such grounds.

4.   Labor opposition could still derail the merger.

5.   Neither rating was expected Monday to derail the merger.

6.   None of the differences are expected to derail the merger, however, representatives for the companies said Monday.

7.   That could derail the merger to form GMG Brands, which LVMH opposes.

8.   Western Resources Inc. claimed it had succeeded in derailing the merger.

9.   But Lukashenko has a history of defying the West, which he accuses of plotting against his government and trying to derail the merger with Russia.

10.   Militant labor unions also could derail the mergers that could entail layoffs, said Lim Ji-won, an economist at investment bank JP Morgan in Hong Kong.