1.   By merging several agencies, the government also expected to save money.

2.   Gore decided in late January against merging the agency into the State Department.

3.   Helms proposed to merge the agencies into the State Department on the ground that this would save money and insure that the foreign policy bureaucracy speaks with one voice.

4.   Merging the agencies has gotten some support previously from others.

5.   The Publicis Group in Paris acquired Kelly Weedon Shute in London and merged that agency with its Impact FCA shop in London.

6.   Boris Yeltsin appoints new security chief, merges security agencies.