The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines:
A) rejects use of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index.
B) clarify that merger analysis does not use a single methodology.
C) were issued by the Justice Department to be additional to the FTC's separate guidelines.
D) require a mechanical application; in order to reduce the previously used analytic framework, which was far too subjective and uncertain.

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The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines emphasize flexibility in merger analysis, indicating that no single methodology is exclusively used. This approach allows for a more nuanced and case-specific analysis rather than relying on a rigid, one-size-fits-all method.