Employees said yesterday that they had suspected for a long time that something -- either a merger or an acquisition -- was coming.
The AT&T case was the most significant challenge that the department had made against a merger in a long time.
There are perceptions along Madison Avenue that the merger is taking a long time to jell, and the defections of some employees and clients are feeding those perceptions.
I think there's a long time to go before the closing of their merger, and while Id like to think that working with Liberate is near the top of their list, it may not be number one.
American Airlines and US Airways join forces First announced in 2013, the merger between American Airlines and US Airways will take a long time.
The theory on neutron star mergers has been around for a long time: they're the origin of a class of gamma-ray bursts.
Mr. Wilhelm argued that the merger had worked, noting that unionization successes take a long time.
"A year is a long time in the airline business, and many things have changed since the merger was first proposed," said Samuel C. Buttrick, an airline analyst at UBS Warburg.
"Before the company announced the merger, I thought I was going to stay with them for a long time and watch my responsibilities increase," Mr. Krugman said.
It's been a long time coming, but ailing state-owned German lender LBBW said it was ready for "concrete merger talks" with its rival BayernLB one year after the subprime crisis began to ravage Germany's banking landscape.
