# Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules
Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, requires persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General advance notice and to wait designated periods before consummation of such plans Section 7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, in individual cases, to terminate this waiting period prior to its expiration and requires that notice of this action be published in the *Federal Register* .
The following transactions were granted early termination of the waiting period provided by law and the premerger notification rules. The grants were made by the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Neither agency intends to take any action with respect to these proposed acquisitions during the applicable waiting period.
| Trans # | Acquiring | Acquired | Entitites |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
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| 20020042 | Omnicom Group Inc. | Schwartz Paper Company | Integrated Merchandising Systems LLC. |
| 20020044 | Neptune Acquisition I Corp | Schlumberger Limited | Schlumber Resource Management Services, Inc. |
| 20020046 | InterMune, Inc | Eli Lilly and Company | Eli Lilly and Company. |
| 20020050 | First Reserve Fund IX, L.P | C&W Fabricators, Inc | C&W Fabricators, Inc. |
| 20020054 | General Electric Company | Robert W. Doede and Nina J. Doede | Centurion Capital Group Inc. |
| 20020056 | WPP Group plc | Mark Penn | Neuro Corp. |
| 20020065 | Olympus Growth Fund III, L.P | Dana Pross | Club Staffing, Inc. |
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| 20020052 | Quest Diagnostics Incorporated | Lifepoint Medical Corporation | Lifepoint Medical Corporation. |
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| 20020066 | C.B. Bard, Inc | NMT Medical Inc | NMT Medical Inc. |
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| 20011871 | Northrop Grumman Corporation | Newport News Shipbuilding, Inc | Newport News Shipbuilding, Inc. |
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| 20012394 | Career Holdings, Inc | HeadHunter.NET, Inc | HeadHunter.NET, Inc. |
| 20020030 | VeriSign, Inc | Illuminet Holdings, Inc | Illuminet Holdings, Inc. |
| 20020064 | Apollo Investment V, L.P | IMC Global Inc | IMC Inorganics, Inc. |
| 20020068 | The News Corporation Limited | Liberty Media Corporation | Fox Sports International Distribution Ltd. |
| 20020076 | Omnicom Group Inc | Richard Tarlow & Sandra Carlson, husband and wife | Carlson & Partners Inc. |
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| 20020072 | Clear Channel Communications, Inc | Barry A. Ackerley | The Ackerley Group, Inc. |
| 20020073 | The J.M. Smucker Company | The Procter & Gamble Ohio Brands Company | The Procter & Gamble Ohio Brands Company. |
| 20020079 | John H. Chuang | Renaissance Worldwide, Inc | Renaissance Worldwide, Inc. |
| 20020081 | Weatherford International, Inc | CiDRA Corporation | CiDRA Corporation. |
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| 20012190 | PerkinElmer, Inc | Stonington Capital Appreciation 1994 Fund, L.P | Packard BioScience Company. |
| 20012191 | Stonington Capital Appreciation 1994 Fund, L.P | PerkinElmer, Inc | PerkinElmer, Inc. |
| 20020086 | International Multifoods Corporation | General Mills, Inc | General Mills, Inc. |
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| 20020075 | Edward H, Arnold | Roadway Corporation | Arnold Transportation Services, Inc. |
| 20020077 | Qwest Communications International Inc | KPNQwest N.V | KPNQwest N.V. |
| 20020078 | NMS Communications Corporation | Lucent Technologies Inc | Lucent Technologies Inc. |
| 20020080 | Union Pacific Corporation | Harold R. Tate | Motor Cargo Industries, Inc., Ute Trucking and Leasing. |
**For Further Information Contact:**
Sandra M. Peay or Parcellena P. Fielding, Contact Representatives, Federal Trade Commission, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Room 303, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326-3100.
By Direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.