11.   Approval became more likely after several major investors recently backed the plan.

12.   At one point, according to a participant, an adviser asked Bush whether he could back a Kosovo peace plan that leaves Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in power.

13.   Barnes also said he backed a plan to extend unemployment insurance benefits to workers forced to leave a job because of domestic violence.

14.   Billionaire Eli Broad joined his effort as a partner earlier this year to provide the financial muscle to back the plans.

15.   Biotechnology companies and plant breeders, who had previously stonewalled the process, joined with negotiators from the industrialized countries to back the plan.

16.   Both parties have announced targets for cutting Medicare, but have yet to back those plans with concrete plans.

17.   Bowing to the drug companies, Lazio backed a plan that would leave millions without affordable coverage.

18.   A Goldman spokesman said the firm would probably announce Sunday whether or not the partners backed the plan to go public.

19.   A Goldman spokesman said the firm would probably announce on Sunday whether or not the partners backed the plan to go public.

20.   But as in other industries, the best business plans must be backed by a solid legal team.