For the executives in a company being acquired, a merger can mean enormous, instant wealth.

The merger would mean two incumbents could face each other next year.

The merger means there will be a further concentration of power over programming and an enormous increase in private power as well.

This merger also means more uniformity of content in the media because the big companies all have the same goal.

The merger will mean a total budget of €83,000,000 a faculty of 159 members and 10,000 students.

This merger means there is a chance that the path into the home will be more open.

A merger would probably mean job cuts in Minneapolis, where both companies are based.

The merger will mean the elimination of 1,100 jobs, or 7.5 percent of the banks' combined work forces.

And some explanation is required, because to the uninitiated, mergers mean less competition, not more.

The two companies say that their merger would mean $1.7 billion in rate savings for customers.