11.   How the merger will affect these two companies is still far from clear.

12.   I suggest that investors mark their calendars for late January or so, and see how the Christmas season went for these two companies.

13.   If these two companies merged, would they be able to preclude others from the market?

14.   In other respects, the issues are specific to these two companies and the people who run them.

15.   Instead of combining operations with the idea of cutting costs to survive in a shrinking market, these two companies are viewing their marriage as a chance to grow.

16.   It is a path that may ultimately save this one company, industry experts say, but it clearly also has its strange quirks.

17.   Moreover, these five companies are not the only ones in the business of manufacturing AIDS drugs.

18.   People forget, the business people in these two companies were very close to a deal last summer.

19.   Shares in Dacom and Korea Mobile Telecom have soared with high-tech stocks, but analysts say these two companies are really just services companies without advanced technology.

20.   The downgrading on these three companies was due to the cut on the long-term foreign and local currency ratings outlook for the country.