1.   Separately yesterday, the Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was not referring the proposed acquisition by EFM Dragon Trust of Drayton Asia Trust.

2.   Among other big financial transactions in which it has been involved recently, Lazard has advised MCI Communications in its proposed acquisition by British Telecommunications.

3.   Analysts said the proposed acquisition, which was approved unanimously by the boards of both companies, underscored the rising importance of the Internet as a business communications medium.

4.   Analysts predicted that Boeing would increase its common stock dividend after the completion of its proposed acquisition of McDonnell Douglas Corp., expected by the end of summer.

5.   And though it has made a couple of sizable acquisitions in recent years, most have been cash deals far smaller than the proposed acquisition of the drug companies.

6.   Antitrust experts said they expect the proposed acquisition to survive federal antitrust review.

7.   Another proposed acquisition, that of the assets of a Repligen Corp. business, fell through yesterday.

8.   As for Hewlett-Packard, where a board member who previously backed CEO Carly Fiorina in the proposed acquisition of Compaq now opposes it, Welch sympathized with Fiorina.

9.   Boeing will be transformed again later this year if its proposed acquisition of McDonnell Douglas Corp. is approved.

10.   A draft decision to block the proposed acquisition of Honeywell International by General Electric was endorsed Monday by a panel of European regulators.