31.   Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp and Thyssen AG staged walkouts in three German cities to secure job guarantees if a proposed merger between the two companies goes ahead.

32.   Lane and Millar said Wednesday they will remain in Dayton and pledged they and other Mead employees will remain active in their communities if the proposed merger goes through.

33.   Loose ends or not, observers believe the merger will probably go through.

34.   Most analysts say the merger will go through, mainly because the FCC has allowed so many others to pass.

35.   Nonetheless, Case said that even if the shares did not rebound, the merger would go ahead.

36.   Other large shareholders said that while they were disappointed with the agreement, they did not expect the WMS merger to go through as currently constituted.

37.   Qwest has said it is ready to sell that business, and if it does, the merger will probably go through.

38.   Racial tensions still simmer within the South African National Defense Force, but the merger went smoothly.

39.   Sakamaki told Kaiho that Nomura will withdraw aid for the bank if the merger goes through, Jiji Press reported.

40.   Seeing how the merger went so wrong takes no MBA, no fancy title, only the recent experience of trying to run a Union Pacific train.