1.   And people close to both men said this rift was not apparent to Reed when the merger was engineered earlier this year.

2.   A year later, Phillips engineered a merger with Advanced Telecommunications Corp.

3.   Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone acknowledges, though not quite in so many words, that he is trying to engineer a merger of the two parties.

4.   He engineered its merger with Internorth, an Omaha pipeline company, and then became chief executive of the combined company and changed its name to Enron.

5.   Not surprisingly, fund companies engineer a merger so the better track record survives.

6.   There, he engineered a merger with a larger company, Internorth, based in Omaha, Neb.

7.   Two years ago, Seifert engineered a merger between the futures and options exchange of Deutsche Boerse and that of its Swiss counterpart.

8.   Last year, he also engineered a merger between Aker and the Kvaerner engineering and oil construction group.

9.   The exchange also suspended trading of Nippon Credit Bank after an unsourced article by Kyodo News said the government may engineer a merger with LTCB.

10.   The losses sidetracked the career of former BankAmerica chief executive officer David Coulter, who helped engineer the merger with NationsBank.