11.   Soon it is announced that Iran and Iraq are merging to form the United Arab Republic.

12.   That was when two money-losing funny channels merged to form Comedy Central.

13.   The deal, whose financials were undisclosed, comes at a time when large regional firms are merging to form national practices.

14.   The medical staffs of two major hospitals in San Francisco are merging to form the largest independent medical group in the city and perhaps the state.

15.   Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Los Robles Bancorp and Goleta National Bank will merge to form a bank-holding company, the firms announced.

16.   Two addictions, gambling, and computers, have merged to form some new attention-deficit species.

17.   US Travel and IVI Business Travel International, two of the biggest travel companies in the country, said Wednesday that they had merged to form BTI Americas Inc.

18.   At another event Saturday that drew leftists in counter-demonstrations, two small right-wing parties merged to form a new party at a rally in Berlin.

19.   But Bumiputera and non-Bumiputera banks merging to form a large Malaysian banking group is better.

20.   Gary Player Golf Equipment and Golf One Industries merged to form Gary Player Golf, Inc., a direct marketing equipment company.