11.   The combined business will be one of the five largest makers of electronic connectors.

12.   The combined businesses will have lower costs and greater profit, he said.

13.   The merger of Mobil Corp. and British Petroleum Plc in European refining will make the combined business number three.

14.   The sheer size of the combined businesses of France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom is enough to scare smaller competitors.

15.   They need to show that the proxy documents did not contain caveats allowing German executives to take complete control of the combined business.

16.   Williams also questioned the decision to adopt the Egghead.com name for the combined business.

17.   But the combined Heinz food business would rank third at Super Valu and among the top five at all retail customers, executives said.

18.   It allows the firms to launch a combined business under the new name Verizon Communications.

19.   Shalikashvili, whose grandfather was a Georgian general, arrived in Tbilisi on Monday on a combined business and personal trip.

20.   Some critics of the deal had feared that the combined business would use special technology to slow delivery of unaffiliated content.