In Birmingham health-care managers have suggested amalgamating 76 existing GP surgeries into 24 larger, franchise-style operations, quoting approvingly the branding and customer service of supermarkets.
In a normal year that combination could expect revenue of $100 billion from the sale of 6m cars—just above Mr Marchionne's viability threshold.Others think that amalgamating three different cultures and several less-than-stellar brands is beyond even the formidably self-confident Mr Marchionne.
Mr McAvoy is now in favour of amalgamating the unions into one big union.
Mr Abbas's men and Hamas have yet to agree who will sit on six committees designed to integrate the two legal systems (amalgamating Gaza's 45 laws and the West Bank's 95 presidential decrees since 2007), administrations, finances and security forces and to agree compensation for those killed in fighting seven years ago.
It would accept that New Labour has absorbed most of what Lib Dems value, and move gradually towards amalgamating the two.
In amalgamating the last single-battalion regiments, four infantry battalions were cut (though one survived as a new special-forces support unit).The criticisms are not wholly just, for the reforms were, by and large, sensible.
The government is amalgamating its various stakes in banks and other businesses, which are held both directly and indirectly through funds.
He used both approaches in his increasingly large sculptures, amalgamating all of his earlier figurations to form erotic fetishes or signals towering into space.
Zhejiang University (1897) is among the largest and most prestigious institutions in China; its size was expanded considerably in 1998 when it was reconstituted after amalgamating with the former Zhejiang Agricultural University (1910) and Hangzhou University (1952).
In 1879 he succeeded in amalgamating all British commercial interests on the Niger into the United African Company, but his application for a royal charter was refused in 1881 on the ground that British influence was not paramount in the Niger region.
The first of its two parts, equivalent to a symphonic first movement, is a setting of the medieval Roman Catholic Pentecost hymn "Veni Creator Spiritus"; part two, amalgamating the three movement-types of the traditional symphony, has for its text the mystical closing scene of J.W. von Goethe's Faust drama (the scene of Faust's redemption).
