1.   The two banks merged to form one large institution.

2.   These spots then spread in all directions and several of them merge to form a turbulent slug.

3.   And Bright Horizons and Corporate Family Solutions recently agreed to merge to form one large early-education company.

4.   As head of Qualmed Inc., Hasan fought with Health Net CEO Roger Greaves after the two companies merged to form Health Systems.

5.   Its French, German and Spanish partners are in the process of merging to form the European Aeronautics Defense and Space Co.

6.   National Cable Advertising in Boston and Cable Media Corp. in New York, both cable advertising sales representative companies, are merging to form National Cable Communications.

7.   Now the two are merging, because their former parent companies Veba AG and RWE AG recently merged to form E.ON.

8.   On one level, the agreement follows a national trend in which real estate companies merge to form bigger and stronger firms.

9.   Perhaps the chains can merge to form a retail giant, Gaphorbucks.

10.   Small islands are unstable, but can become more stable when they merge to form larger islands.