21.   In their struggle for survival many brokerage firms and merchant banking outfits will sell out or merge to form larger entities.

22.   Kantor rejected suggestions that Commerce and the USTR should be merged to form a Department of Trade.

23.   Smaller brokerages are trying to survive the increasing competition by merging to form larger firms.

24.   The businesses will be merged to form a new business owned half each by Brierley and Bollore.

25.   They tied a rope around a tree and went down into the cave where three streams merged to form a waterfall.

26.   Three major political movements on Saturday merged to form a single political party and its newly elected leader said they will pursue the goals set by President Vladimir Putin.

27.   Two or more Bumiputera-controlled banks merging to form a large banking group is good.

28.   Waters from the rain-swollen Juba and Shabelle Rivers have merged to form an inland sea covering thousands of hectares.

29.   British drinks group Guinness and Grand Metropolitan, the food and drinks giant, on Monday announced plans to merge to form a new global player called GMG Brands.

30.   British drinks group Guinness and the food and drinks giant Grand Metropolitan on Monday announced they would merge to form GMG Brands.