81.   Officials from the two unions said many details remained to be hammered out before a formal merger agreement is put to a vote.

82.   Other elements of the new merger agreement also rankled investors, however.

83.   One big battlefield will be the Philadelphia suburbs, where the New Jersey and Delaware Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans last week announced a merger agreement.

84.   One person close to the negotiations said America Online was not told of the EMI talks until after America Online and Time Warner had reached their basic merger agreement.

85.   Regal-Beloit, a maker of power transmission equipment, and Brad Foote Gear Works Inc. were unable to reach a merger agreement and broke off talks.

86.   Santa Fe and Burlington initially announced a merger agreement last June.

87.   Shares in military contractors rose after the announcement of a merger agreement by Lockheed and Martin Marietta.

88.   Shares of the maker of sterilization equipment rose after the company announced that its merger agreement with Amsco International Inc. was approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

89.   Since the merger agreement, both sides have given ground.

90.   Since the time I left employment, the corporation has accepted a merger agreement.