21.   Ceisler said his group will ask the U.S. Justice Department and New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco to block the merger because it stifles competition.

22.   Committee members said commission investigators favored blocking the merger, the panel member said.

23.   Condit said he expects no antitrust issues to block the merger because the businesses are so different.

24.   Consumer advocates are pushing those regulators to block the merger, or at least limit the power of the new media giant.

25.   Dissident Hewlett-Packard Co. director Walter Hewlett filed suit Thursday seeking to block the merger between the company his father co-founded and Compaq Computer Corp.

26.   During her first two years, the division doubled the number of cases in which it challenged, restructured or blocked proposed mergers.

27.   Earlier this year, the government blocked a merger of the power companies Unin Fenosa and Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico over antitrust concerns.

28.   Dutch law provides little recourse to block the merger, he said, so he is trying to win over company management to his approach instead.

29.   EU antitrust officials said last week the merger should be blocked.

30.   Even if he ultimately decides to try to block the merger, he does not have the final say.