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Companies widely-mentioned as possible prey for Disney include film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, InterActiveCorp, which is run by Barry Diller, and Pixar Animation Studios, which just ended its long and profitable relationship with the company, as well as the satellite TV service Echostar, which recently was blocked by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in a bid to merge with DirectTV.

In October 2008, the university lost out to Royal Holloway in a bid to merge with London medical institute St George's, University of London.

In 1999, he made a bid to merge Web portal Lycos with HSN and create an e-commerce powerhouse.

St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, based in Tooting, south London, withdrew a bid to merge with St Helier and Sutton in January because of "financial challenges".

In the mid-1990s, BT made a bid to merge with MCI, before MCI was taken over by WorldCom.

The Wood Group has launched a bid to merge with oil company Amec Group in a deal worth £2.2 billion ($2.8 billion).

Most recently, Aetna and Humana announced a bid to merge, threatening to make the American health insurance market even more uncompetitive.

Recently, he surprised fellow Democrats with a bid to merge the party with the Liberal Party, led by Ichiro Ozawa, a former LDP heavyweight.

See articleLondon callingThe London Stock Exchange, meanwhile, is facing competition in its bid to merge with TMX, the group which operates the Toronto exchange, after Maple, a consortium of Canadian banks, topped LSE's offer.

The favorable outlook could strengthen Thyssen's hand in its bid to merge with Krupp, with the issue of the companies' relative valuations being one of the remaining major hurdles.

Last week T-Mobile and Sprint got another win in their bid to merge when New York's Public Service Commission approved the deal.