71.   The merger will create such a financial colossus that regulators could worry that the combined bank will monopolize certain markets in New England.

72.   The merger will create the fourth-largest publicly traded managed care firm in the country.

73.   The merger will create the fourth-largest U.S. bank, stretching from Maryland to New Mexico.

74.   The merger will create the largest U.S. company providing telecommunications services to office-building tenants.

75.   The merger would create, in total assets, the largest corporation on earth.

76.   The Raytheon-Hughes merger will create a dominant missile manufacturing company.

77.   The proposed merger has created tensions between Bertelsmann and its partners Canal Plus and BSkyB.

78.   The two utilities expect the merger to create a stronger company that would compete more effectively in the electric utility industry.

79.   The Viacom-CBS merger would create a media juggernaut that could command a huge share of the money spent on advertising each year.

80.   These opponents contend that the merger will create an overcentralized, top-heavy, less democratic union.