1.   The company is funding a major research project into the causes of addiction.

2.   Within existing Compacts, companies have funded prizes for attendance, computers, conferences and other activities.

3.   Besides advertising, the tobacco companies have also funded so-called grassroots lobbying activities, urging smokers to call or write their senators.

4.   A company funded with money from the late CBS founder William Paley and the Pentagon alike.

5.   A spokesman for the Charlotte school system said that parents who received letters were not advised that pharmaceutical companies indirectly funded some of the testing costs.

6.   Each company also funds its own in-house research and development, which leads to new products.

7.   Educators build computer labs in the inner cities, and well-meaning high-tech companies fund Web sites for the Australian aborigines.

8.   Kleman says the company will fund the expansion out of cash flow.

9.   The company has funded events at conventions of both major political parties for years.

10.   The New York-based company will fund four years of research by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia.