1.   For all their talk of globalization, corporate executives often cannot overcome their national jealousies and cultural biases when they merge with foreign entities to become truly global players.

2.   In the design, however, the companies that later merged to become TranSystems used the wrong elevation for the pilings for the east abutment.

3.   On Tuesday, they announced that they were merging to become one very controversial company.

4.   The government has said Singapore banks should merge to become a bigger force in Asia.

5.   The opening of the banking industry to foreign competition led the central bank and government to urge banks in Malaysia to merge to become larger.

6.   The province had been run by the two historically white parties, the New National Party and the Democratic Party, which had merged to become the Democratic Alliance.

7.   To get a greater share of these contracts, medical groups are merging to become more attractive to insurers and managed care companies.

8.   However, when DCB Bank and Kwong Yik Bank merged last year to become RHB Bank, not a single employee was laid off.

9.   Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals Inc., a comprehensive chemical maker, and Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Ltd. will merge to become Mitsui Chemicals Inc.

10.   Radzmi said that the trend internationally is in pharmaceutical companies merging to become larger and more efficient companies.