This decision left the National Government, that is, the people of the Nation, practically helpless to deal with the large combinations of modern business.

There had been suggestions that the privately held agency companies might use a media agreement as a prelude to a larger combination.

"In terms of revenues, this would be the largest combination in the defense industry of all time."

This is the largest combination of players and picks ever traded for a single player in NBA history.

For one of the larger combinations that would have 2,300 square feet, the price tag was about $1.5 million, before renovations.

The move was the latest in a recent wave of bank consolidation in Europe, though most large combinations have been within single national markets.

Without the larger combination, he said, "all three would be at the bottom of the European league; they will be marginalized."

Other than local competition there is historical precedent for large financial combinations opening the door to abuses or risky financial practices.

Either offer, if completed, would still result in one of the world's largest combinations ever.

Even relatively small software programs can have astronomically large combinations of inputs and states that are infeasible to exhaustively test.