1.  Degussa and SKW have already announced their intention to sell off about $3 billion worth of businesses, in an attempt to simplify their combined company.

2.  Derr was believed to have insisted on retaining chairmanship of any combined company until he retires in two to four years.

3.  Current Lennar shareholders will own 68 percent of the combined company, while Pacific Greystone's holders will own the remaining 32 percent.

4.  Desmarest will run the combined company and the chairman of Elf, Philippe Jaffre, will step down.

5.  Daisy eventually did buy Cadnetix, but the combined company was forced into involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy by bondholders in 1990, after it failed to meet revenue projections.

6.  Despite these proposed divestitures, the combined company would still account for 55 percent of the oil flowing from Alaska's North Slope, the FTC estimated.

7.  Dick Cheney, who took over at Halliburton in 1995 after serving as defense secretary under former President George Bush, will be chief executive of the combined company.

8.  David J. O'Reilly, the longtime Chevron executive who became chairman in January, will now lead the combined company.

9.  Disney said the combined company was expected to have revenues of $350 million, of which $150 million would come from traditional sales from the Disney catalog.

10.  Diaz expects 2001 sales of $60 million to $70 million for the combined company.