In addition, it observed, "the consolidation of hospitals into networks and systems" has increased their bargaining power, so they can extract higher payments from H.M.O.'s and other insurers.
Matthew Ball, an analyst at Canalys, a telecommunications research firm in Reading, England, said Alcatel-Lucent was feeling pressure from a round of consolidation in the United States telecommunications industry, which has increased pressure on equipment makers to lower their prices.
There is still no multiple listing service in Manhattan, but the sharing of listings has increased in recent years, spurred in part by the consolidations and the new national connections.
But antitrust officials said on Tuesday that despite the cost savings for the carriers from consolidation, domestic airfares, on average, had increased much faster than inflation over the last several years, prompting the department to revise its thinking about what was best for the consumer.
Utilities and energy traders and marketers have been calling for the repeal of a Depression-era law limiting the consolidation of the electricity industry; their chances of success have increased markedly with the Republican victory, industry representatives said.
But consolidation hasn't hurt advertisers: Inventories of ad space and commercial time have increased 16% since 1997, according to media consultant Competitive Media Reporting.
On day 18, he had extensive consolidation that involved most of both lung fields, and his neutrophil count had increased to 2.46 × 10/L.
Those trends have increased pressure on exchanges like London's to issue their own shares to speed consolidation.
Mr. Winshall said that consolidation in the apparel industry, with larger companies driving smaller competitors out of business or absorbing them, had increased the value of buildings considered to be at the heart of the district.
