11.   Taiwan and Korea, where the financial industry is being swept by a crisis of confidence, compete in the steel, petrochemicals and electronics industries.

12.   The acquisition is another step in the consolidation that has swept the industry since the end of the Cold War.

13.   The climate, however, continues to be conducive for more of the huge bank mergers that have been sweeping the industry.

14.   The goal is to compete better as technological change sweeps the industry.

15.   The industry has been swept with mergers, as utilities scramble to cut costs and to widen their customer bases as states have begun to loosen the regulatory reins.

16.   The new model, though attractive, breaks no new ground stylistically, relying instead on the latest angles and curves sweeping the industry.

17.   The pharmaceuticals industry has been swept by a wave of mergers and acquisitions, often by giant European companies.

18.   The sales decline has become deep enough to transform the insurance business and to play a key role in the recent wave of mergers sweeping the industry.

19.   Wall Street generally embraced the potential merger as the logical next step in the consolidation sweeping the industry.

20.   A wave of big mergers has swept the industry in recent months as companies pair up to be more competitive.