We'll both benefit from the greater efficiencies of combining purchasing, distribution, customer service and several departments.

The recession-hit auction house has announced a restructuring of its world-wide operation, combining departments, while further reducing staff numbers.

And as business declines under managed care, some hospitals are combining departments and reducing staffs.

After the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, Dowlin combined departments.

They also combined several departments with identical departments at Foreign Trade, which has a circulation of 33,000.

The move would mean combining departments.

NASA is already studying a reorganization, which according to draft documents would combine several departments within the agency and reduce the size of its bureaucracy.

Unlike many peer universities, WPI does not combine related departments into colleges or schools.

Mr. Critelli has already combined old departments and created new ones.

Opportunities to combine certain departments and functions abounded.