Sentence examples for make a merger from inspiring English sources

"I think you need two years to make a merger like that work, when people stop thinking about it as us and them," a Bankers Trust official said.

"I doubt very seriously and it would be a big mistake to make a merger to negotiate for more money, because it's a zero-sum game," Mr. Wagar said.

Across the RSA group there are "hundreds of policy variations", says Jan Miller, a director, adding, with British understatement, that "it's complex enough not to make a merger a straightforward proposition".

The combined balance sheet, anticipated synergies and network fit between the airlines make a merger an attractive proposition, particularly in the current economic environment".Synergies" and "network fit" will be music to the ears of the shareholders.

The problem, bankers say, is that potential buyers are not convinced they can wrest from Bayer the power to cut workers and otherwise reduce costs to make a merger make sense.

As The Economist went to press, a secret ballot of shareholders was being held to determine the fate of the top management, after a show of hands had voted to oust Mr Casey.Mr Cruickshank had already conceded that the difficulties of integrating London and Frankfurt, at least as originally planned, make a merger impossible in the short term.

Manfred Wennemer, Continental's combative chief executive, is capable of making a merger work.

Ms. Brown, the Daily Beast editor, said on Monday that cultural differences between the organizations made a merger too difficult.

To push through these cuts quickly, explaining them to bewildered and resentful employees, is often the hardest part of making a merger succeed.

But each step toward stabilizing Qwest makes a merger offer more likely, according to analysts like Susan Kalla, who follows the industry for Friedman, Billings, Ramsey.

But Wachovia, like WaMu, has been hobbled by bad mortgages, making a merger more urgent and prompting federal regulators to push for a quick sale.