41.   Meanwhile, two Massachusetts anti-abortion groups are temporarily backing off from protests outside clinics, but another group is back on the sidewalk.

42.   Nearly all major political and labor groups have backed the bid.

43.   No anti-immigration group backs his center, Mumford said.

44.   Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, says he plans to reintroduce a measure that health groups backed last year.

45.   Several groups backed El Hadi.

46.   Since then both groups had publicly backed the Good Friday deal principally to ensure that their imprisoned members were allowed to walk free.

47.   Some U.S. Christian groups have backed the rebellion in the south by Christian blacks against the Arab-dominated regime in the north.

48.   Taxes were another important issue and that group backed Bush by an overwhelming margin.

49.   The announcement is widely believed to signal that the Hyundai group is backing away from its ambitions to expand in the financial sector.

50.   The group is backing a proposal to decriminalize euthanasia due to be submitted to parliament next week.