101.   In theory, because the merged company had cut costs, that should result in lower electric rates.

102.   It also represents the culmination of a significant restructuring at Akzo, the Dutch branch of the merged company.

103.   Indeed, because Telecom Italia has far less debt than its German counterpart, the merged company will have a stronger balance sheet than Telekom itself.

104.   It comes as CNN gears up for big changes under the freshly merged company of AOL Time Warner.

105.   It also expands the turf controlled by executives who came to the merged company from Dean Witter.

106.   It is also interviewing telephone companies, which may end up as competitors of the merged company.

107.   Instead, the companies will try to refute European arguments that the merged company would harm competition because of its enormous size.

108.   Instead, the merged companies have been beset with traffic problems that have caused safety concerns and angered shippers.

109.   It now prefers to be called RHI since it is no longer simply the merged Austrian companies Radex and Heraklith.

110.   It fears that the size of merged companies will make it unable to remain competitive.