Clydebank, who had been established as a separate senior club in 1965 following their ill-fated merger with East Stirlingshire, were elected to the Scottish League in 1966, and finished third from bottom in their inaugural season.

That would be quite a recovery from the rough ride that began with Kroll's ill-fated 1997 merger with O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, an armored-car manufacturer in Fairfield, Ohio.

The police authority received £287,600 from the Home Office for costs of preparing the ill-fated merger.

Mr. Case, the America Online founder who oversaw an ill-fated merger with Time Warner before he left in 2003, set up Revolution Health two years later.

He was involved in ill-fated mergers at British Printing Corporation in 1966 and at Trust House Forte in 1970.

Beginning February 1, 1968, Perlman was president, director, and chief administrative office of Penn Central Transportation (PC), the ill-fated merger of the New York Central with the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Since the ill-fated merger of America Online and Time Warner, investors have also become more skeptical about the value of merging distribution with programming.

RA&A closed in 1987 following an ill-fated merger with now defunct Omnibus Computer Graphics, Inc., a company which had been based in Toronto.

Then came the ill-fated £1.5 billion merger with British Home Stores in 1986.

The Media Metrix unit briefly had a stock market value of $1.2 billion in 1999, before its ill-fated merger with Jupiter Communications.