31.   Mirage officials would not talk about what impact the proposed merger might have on its Atlantic City project.

32.   More of such mergers will be announced soon as the mergers will have to be completed by March, the central bank said in a statement today.

33.   Most mergers have little do with any payoff for the companies.

34.   Small banks are minnows in a world where mergers have begat whale-sized institutions.

35.   The Fed has always paid attention to the impact mergers could have on competitiveness within the banking industry.

36.   The Justice Department is also concerned about the impact a Wells-First Interstate merger would have on unsecured business loans to small and medium-sized businesses.

37.   The horizontal mergers have a lot of precedents and very clear guidelines.

38.   The merger also has to win the approval of government regulators concerned about concentration of power in the media.

39.   The merger has to be approved by U.S. and South African regulators.

40.   The merger has yet to win regulatory approval from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.