1.   Bay Area biotech firms have also been on the buy side of the merger binge.

2.   Boeing seems distracted by its recent merger binge and a surprising strike by usually tractable white-collar engineers.

3.   But Notebaert knows what he is talking about when he says the force behind the merger binge is bigger than one law.

4.   The booming stock markets have fueled the merger binge because most of the corporate purchases are made with shares instead of cash.