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What drove mergers in the 1980s?

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A fourth period of intense merger activity began in the early 1980s and continued into the 1990s. The driving force behind these mergers were technological advances, global competition, and the deregulation of industries, such as the airline industry, that had once been closely supervised by the federal government.

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