1.   As with any hospital merger, part of the purpose is to reduce costs by eliminating overlapping functions, and layoffs are always a possibility.

2.   Both had similar aims and overlapping functions.

3.   Johnson said job cuts are taking place mainly in administrative and back-office operations, especially those that perform overlapping functions.

4.   The first is a corporate reorganization aimed at streamling the company by eliminating overlapping manufacturing functions and focusing stent production in Miami and Ireland.

5.   The merger also provides opportunities for cost savings from the elimination of overlapping functions.

6.   According to Toledo, a study made by the company showed that FEGDI and FELI have overlapping functions.

7.   Although they are supposed to have their own fields of responsibility, many are said to have overlapping functions.

8.   Govt working on new framework to eliminate overlapping functions,

9.   Many of the often overstaffed ministries have overlapping functions.

10.   Stressing that the government did not have any preferences, Mr Suen said dissolving the two councils might solve the problem of overlapping functions.