Chase is still shedding employees as a result of its merger completed this month with Bank One.
The plan comes amid mounting desperation to get the merger completed.
The current leading issuer of Pfandbriefe, Allgemeine HypothekenBank Rheinboden, was the result of a merger completed in the summer.
Merck said fourth-quarter net income was $6.5 billion, or $2.35 a share, including about two months of results from Schering-Plough, a merger completed in early November.
Members of the Nets organization have been walking lightly and glancing over their shoulders ever since George Steinbrenner became involved with the franchise through the YankeeNets merger completed last fall.
The company said: "Ultimately, key employees were retained, the momentum of both legacy businesses was maintained, the merger completed smoothly and the employees will receive no more remuneration than if the merger had not happened".
"There was a belief that in getting the merger completed we would have to divest some of the Internet business," Arthur B. Krause, Sprint's chief financial officer, said in an interview yesterday.
The guide lays out television listings as do the TV Guide magazine and cable listings channel -- which were acquired by Gemstar in a merger completed last summer -- by showing a grid with program titles and their corresponding times.
Shaw, a small stockbroking firm.BankAmerica was spawned from a merger, completed on September 30th, of the old BankAmerica, America's fifth-biggest bank by assets, and NationsBank, an acquisitive "super-regional" bank with a reputation for taking risks.
With the Newsweek-Daily Beast merger complete — the companies agreed to combine in November, and they officially closed on the deal late last month — she has quickly thrown herself into overhauling the magazine.
