71.   Viacom has been unable to sell the division, and one person familiar with the company said it was now seeking a partner with which to combine operations.

72.   Weakening oil prices, one of the forces driving many petroleum companies to combine operations, fell further Monday.

73.   Weber and Jan Stenberg, president of SAS, said they expect no job losses from combining some operations.

74.   While the major oil companies have long combined every operation from wellhead to gasoline pump, the natural gas companies are only now achieving as much reach.

75.   With a significant stake in Disney, Harbor Capital will regain a position in Capital Cities once those companies combine their operations.

76.   With Credit Suisse it also decided to combine some operations in locations where both have offices.

77.   Yet the companies also assert that a merger would somehow allow them to combine operations in a way that would produce substantial savings.

78.   A SPAT of banking mergers is on the cards, starting with BSN Commercial Bank Bhd and Oriental Bank Bhd which last week secured approval to combine their operations.

79.   Both Kawasaki and NKK have announced they will combine their operations next fall in a strategy to strengthen competitiveness in the global market.

80.   By combining operations, Sony and Ericsson can reduce cell phone development costs and increase international market share, the report said.