1.   Another issue revolves around the biggest business combination since Daft took over.

2.   But McKesson officials asserted the business combination would continue.

3.   But technological advancement is pushing the concept of virtual corporations by allowing business combinations that would have been impossible previously.

4.   It said several companies were interested in a business combination.

5.   Jenkins cited the rule on business combinations and one changing accounting for financial derivatives as the accomplishments he was most proud of during his tenure.

6.   Preferring neither alternative, E-Systems last fall invited several companies to propose business combinations of one sort or another.

7.   The companies have so far limited themselves to examining some sort of business combination or arrangement, the paper reported.

8.   The companies said they could still collaborate in some way, short of an actual business combination.

9.   The business combination will allow Computer Generation to inaugurate a stock option plan for employees.

10.   The company did attempt to buy Sprint Corp. last year in a merger that would have created the same business combination as that proposed by MCI and SHL.