MERGER MANIA

  The ongoing mergermania - the effort to put more and more control into
  the hands of fewer and fewer people - is the single greatest threat to
  our freedom and democracy. Here are a few more Mergers in the Making.

   Xerox and Wurlitzer
     They're going to make reproductive organs.

   Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers
     Fairwell Honeychild

   Polygram Records, Warner Brothers and Keebler
     Poly-Warner-Cracker

   W. R. Grace Co., Fuller Brush Co., Mary Kay Cosmetics
   and Hale Business Systems
     Hale Mary Fuller Grace

   3M & Goodyear
     mmmGood

   John Deere & Abitibi-Price
     Deere Abi

   Honeywell, Imasco, and Home Oil
     Honey, I'm Home

   Denison Mines, Alliance, and Metal Mining
     Mine, All Mine

   3M, J.C. Penney, Canadian Opera Company
     3 Penney Opera

   Grey Poupon & Dockers Pants
     Poupon Pants

   Knott's Berry Farm & National Organization of Women
     Knott NOW!

   Zippo Manufacturing, Audi, Dofasco, Dakota Mining
     Zip Audi Do-Da

   The most obvious candidates for a merger: Netscape and Yahoo
     Net & Yahoo