1.   In a friendly merger, the smaller company can agree to make the share exchange offer for the larger company in order to maintain the listing.

2.   Apple Computer Inc. may rise, after the New York Times reported that the computer maker is seeking a friendly merger partner.

3.   Applied said it made the hostile offer because friendly merger discussions with Read-Rite, based in Milpitas, Calif., had broken down.

4.   Apple Computer Inc. is actively looking for a friendly merger candidate, several executives close to the company said Wednesday.

5.   As events worked out, Krupp and Thyssen negotiated a friendly merger of just their steel operations and then later merged their other businesses.

6.   ATLANTA - Five months ago, L. Phillip Humann was to have announced a friendly merger between SunTrust Banks, the company he heads, and Wachovia.

7.   Bank of New York is in a weak position to pursue anything other than a friendly merger with Mellon.

8.   Burd said he anticipated a friendly merger because the companies shared a similar outlook and some of the same directors.

9.   But CSX and Conrail vowed to complete their friendly merger.

10.   Concern over such dual representation arose when Kekst represented both Viacom Inc. and Paramount Communications as they negotitated a friendly merger.