The family firm, Todd Company, which manufactured office equipment and supplies, had earlier merged with the Burroughs Corporation.
Even last year, when Mr. Harrison became the chief executive of Chase Manhattan, with which Chemical had earlier merged, many employees still had little sense of who he was.
Two of Viacom's biggest competitors, AOL and Time Warner, had earlier merged to become the world's largest old-and-new-media conglomerate, and Karmazin was looking for potential partners in the tech world.
Mr. Meyne, the Reynolds senior director of public affairs, served on the restaurant group's board, and Mr. Cain served on the board of Nabisco, which had earlier merged with Reynolds.
This year, Mr. Putin deprived the prime minister of supervision over the so-called state corporations, into which the president's administration had earlier merged some of Russia's vital, and often most profitable, industrial enterprises — like missile production and nuclear power.
But they went off to college, became entrepreneurs and reaped $58 million in capital gains when Canada's Laidlaw bought out a company that had earlier merged with their health care business.
In the filing, Zipcar also shared that it's actively looking for more acquisitions in the space: the company has earlier merged with rival Flexcar (in 2007) and UK-based Streetcar (April 2010).
The upgraded system design exploits the redundancy of the CMS muon detectors at a very early stage merging different muon detector information already at L1.
Within this theory, galaxies form "bottom-up," with low-mass objects ("halos") collapsing earlier and merging to form larger and larger systems over time.
