81.   The agreement being hammered out between federal antitrust officials and executives of America Online and Time Warner may affect more than one corporate merger.

82.   The antitrust laws are supposed to protect consumers from price hikes that could follow corporate mergers.

83.   The ascendancy of Bell Atlantic is no surprise to industry experts or to students of corporate mergers.

84.   The agreement the companies reached then called for an eventual corporate merger of the operations.

85.   The corporate merger world is littered with ambitious people who reached too far for a big prize and fell flat on their faces.

86.   The deal, which shareholders of both companies had already approved, was the biggest corporate merger ever dismantled because of government opposition.

87.   The European Commission proposed new rules to increase its authority to regulate European corporate mergers and takeovers.

88.   The financial deal, which is pending regulatory approval, would rank as the largest corporate merger ever.

89.   The firm is the leading underwriter of stocks and the second-largest arranger of corporate mergers.

90.   The European Commission is expected to propose tomorrow new rules to increase its authority to regulate European corporate mergers and takeovers.