1.   Merging these departments will create economies of scale.

2.   He wants to merge some departments, like Energy and Defense, and gut others, like Education.

3.   Kelly said he believed Continuum would become stronger by taking steps like restructuring its debt and, yes, perhaps merging more departments.

4.   Rogers has also merged departments that dealt with various ancient cultures.

5.   Voters amended the City Charter to merge several departments.

6.   Departments will be merged while others will change their names to suit their functions better as Vietnam reforms its central economy, Trinh said.