41.   For merger partners, the only way around this is to negotiate a settlement with Justice that resolves its concerns.

42.   Florida Progress has been seeking a merger partner.

43.   For example, they often help companies choose merger partners, develop global expansion strategies and select new computer systems.

44.   Government control, however, means preventing foreign companies from buying any of the U.S. firms already placed off-limits to would-be American merger partners.

45.   He referred to the remaining major oil companies that had not found merger partners.

46.   However, Conrail cites another Pennsylvania law that gives the company wide latitude in choosing a merger partner.

47.   If the merger partners are flexible, though, such problems can often be resolved.

48.   If the merger partners have their way, customers will mate quite a few of them with interactive set-top boxes.

49.   In Pennsylvania, a company can consider parties other than shareholders -- such as customers, the community and employees -- when deciding on a merger partner.

50.   In the last few weeks, Novartis has been linked by analysts and some news reports as a possible merger partner with several companies, including Monsanto.