The global commodities boom, although it has abated amid fears for the world economy, is the driving force behind the desire to acquire the LME, along with a growing trend for exchanges to merge to cut costs.
In Denmark, for its part, a recent trend has been to merge management functions and/or create matrix organisations by merging departments from several hospitals into functional units with joint responsibilities for particular treatment areas.
It's a dense and ambitious work--the word "epic" comes to mind--that seems to merge the present trend for dystopian architectural visions that look like something out of Inception with an angular, rhythmic, minimalist score inspired by the work of Steve Reich, who helpied pioneer minimalist music in the 1960s. .
"We think there is an amazing opportunity to try to merge the growing trends with VR and the physical dome format.
The trend in America for big investment banks to merge with retail brokers (firms such as Dean Witter, Discover and Smith Barney, which sell shares, bonds and other investments to small investors) could hasten such decisions.
By agreeing to merge the two firms will belatedly join the trend for big European airlines to bulk up.
ONE of the nation's hot creative boutiques specializing in Internet marketing and advertising plans to merge with a larger interactive shop, reflecting a trend of marriages between Internet-driven firms and agencies that produce creative material for the Web.
Hitachi Ltd. and the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation said today that they were in talks to merge their system chip businesses, moving the consolidation trend in the semiconductor industry up a rung on the product-sophistication ladder.
SAS v9.1 was used to merge datasets, generate queries of greater complexity and perform trend analyses, using the facility as the unit of analysis.
There are Europe-wide as well as national trends to re-merge radiology and nuclear medicine into one imaging specialty in the future; however, the discussion of this issue is outside the scope of this paper.
