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The asset divestitures are aimed at helping to cover the company's hefty debt load.

Diageo and Pernod are unlikely to keep all the Seagram brands, and further divestitures are expected.

AT&T officials have said that while the company believes that no such divestitures are necessary, it is prepared to consider the commission's recommendations.

The divestitures are a reversal of course for Tenet, which became the nation's second-largest hospital chain behind HCA through acquisitions.

But those divestitures are relatively small pieces of the deal, which involves the transfer of 38 television stations and more than 160 radio stations.

(Other Cendant divestitures are the Wyndham hotel chain and its travel businesses, including Orbitz).

But Mr. Kerans said such divestitures were not crucial to the success of the merger.

One issue with divestitures is finding buyers that would not be problematic in such a consolidated market, explained Spigel.

Among its divestitures is the $15.5 billion sale of one international unit, the American Life Insurance Company, to MetLife in March and an initial public offering this month of an Asian operation, American International Assurance.

Aon's chief executive, Gregory C. Case, said the divestitures were part of its strategy to exit the lower-margin and more capital-intensive insurance underwriting business.

The record raises significant questions as to whether those proposed divestitures were in fact 'sham' transactions.