Sentence examples for merger stage from inspiring English sources

"Among other things," he writes, "I learned that merging galaxies can fire up to ultraluminous status early in the encounter, against the prevailing wisdom that put such activity only late in the final merger stage".

The last stage of rocky planet formation is the merger stage.

Hypotheses do not predict a merger stage, due to the low probability of collisions between planetary embryos in the outer part of planetary systems.

And there is a precedent for a merger in stages: Scandinavian Airlines began as a co-operative venture between the airlines of Norway, Denmark and Sweden in 1946 and then merged in 1951.

But for much of "Stealing Time," the principal players in the merger cede the stage to less central but more colorful deal makers inside the AOL service who were the focus of The Post's series.

The ascendance of 3G and Mr. Lemann as major players on the global mergers-and-acquisition stage reflects the rise of Brazil as an economic power.

To date three clusters have been observed, covering the temporal sequence from early to late stage mergers: A1750, A2065 and A3921.

First Choice Holidays is at an advanced stage of merger talks with Swiss-based Kuoni, the British company said yesterday.

"It would be extremely unwise to go for a full merger without the first stage of a holding company," says Probir Sen, who was one of the joint-chairmen.

Merger gossip took center stage again as power producer Mirant said it would pay $1.6 billion for RRI Energy, pushing shares up 18.2% and 14.7%, respectively.

The American group, which has the right of first refusal to buy the shares France Telecom hopes to acquire, is discussing a joint takeover of E-Plus with KPN Telecom of the Netherlands.Telewest, Britain's second-biggest cable-TV operator, confirmed that it is in the early stages of merger talks with Flextech, a pay-TV content-provider.