However, because of money issues, the conferences backed away from a full merger.
The full structural merger is expected to be completed by June 2009.
The parties announced their full merger on 22 September 2011.
But today, the two companies said a full merger made more sense because it would save an estimated $257 million a year.
Company executives said they would not exclude a full merger in the future.
Due to regulatory issues, the full merger was not completed until February 1998.
A full merger was still considered a long shot.
Many students and Harvard administrators called for a full merger of the two schools.
The two firms may vote to complete a full financial merger in 2014.
As we have shown elsewhere, however, it is not always the case in such examples that full merger within the language system has come about.