11.   The merger left the new bank with an excessive cost structure and high levels of non-performing loans.

12.   The merger would leave those Missouri residents not wired for cable, about one-third of the state, under a satellite television monopoly, he said.

13.   The merger leaves American Home Products, the spurned suitor of Warner-Lambert, alone again for the third time in two years.

14.   The merger leaves Interpublic with three worldwide agency networks.

15.   The SBC merger will leave BellSouth the second-smallest of four regional phone companies, potentially vulnerable to takeover in a world dominated by behemoths.

16.   The Union Pacific merger left too few locomotives and overworked crews, supervisors often unprepared for their new duties, and clashing computer systems that lost track of trains.

17.   Mergers will leave the U.S. Defense Department with only a handful of behemoth weapons makers.

18.   That merger left Roche a distant second in turnover, but in a good position to buy another company.

19.   The merger leaves the combined company dominating many U.S. medicine cabinets.

20.   The mergers would leave Andersen Worldwide ranked third in accounting firms and Deloitte and Touche ranked fourth in global revenue.