11.   Guarantees have also been used to pacify minority shareholders when companies already under common control are merged.

12.   Investors want regional companies merged and sold as larger units.

13.   John W. Kluge will merge four companies to form a company that will focus on Eastern Europe.

14.   Lagardere had planned to buy minority Thomson-CSF holders and merge the company with its Matra defense unit, which makes radar systems, satellites and cruise missiles.

15.   Mitchell Lee Marks, a psychologist and consultant who helps merging companies integrate, spoke last week about whether the shotgun marriage of Tyson and IBP can succeed.

16.   Merging the companies is not expected to be simple or easy.

17.   Once the companies are merged, the rivalry ends, conferring awesome power on the combined company to control the information families download from the Net.

18.   Shepherd said he and Janovec decided to merge the company into AmeriResource last year because a public company gave them access to capital not available to a private company.

19.   Sir Richard, with whom Leschly had held several cordial conversations since the two started talking about merging their companies in January, wanted to meet.

20.   The arrest warrant comes as the French government pressures Dassault to merge his company with state-owned Aerospatiale, something he has long resisted.