Word: tootin
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...Rootin', tootin', acquisition-mad MCI Worldcom chief Bernard Ebbers may have finally met his match: the antitrust boys at the Justice Department. Ebbers' proposed $130 billion hookup with Sprint - the latest in a spectacular string of acquisitions by the southern-fried CEO - would be one of the largest corporate mergers ever, a joining of the No. 2 and No. 3 long-distance carriers that posed a serious threat to leader AT&T. But now Justice staffers have formally recommended to head trustbuster Joel Klein that the merger be blocked, on the grounds that a company with one third...