1.   Consumer groups were alarmed at the proposed fusion of Chevron and Texaco.

2.   Insufficient financial support has thrown the future of a proposed international fusion reactor so much in doubt that the project could be killed by January.

3.   Some stock-trading experts have even come to question the basic premise that mergers like as the proposed fusion of the London-Frankfurt bourses are workable.

4.   EU anti-trust officials said the companies would have to modify the proposed fusion in order to get it cleared by the Commission, the EU executive body.

5.   EU anti-trust officials said the companies would have to modify their proposed fusion in order to get it cleared by the Commission, the EU executive body.

6.   Later Toronto Dominion and CIBC also announced a proposed fusion.