81.   The White House is backing the plan.

82.   To aid ailing business, the group backed a plan to provide special financing to small companies, and suggested moves to ease acquisition of industrial-use land.

83.   Voters in Scotland are set to back plans to establish their own parliament with tax-varying powers, according the latest opinion poll.

84.   While investors were initially reluctant to back the plan, analysts said approval became more likely after several major investors backed it.

85.   While Eurotunnel has said it will go bankrupt without the reorganization, some shareholders are still reluctant to back the plan.

86.   Pacifist Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova has backed the plan, saying it was a good basis for the talks.

87.   Peres suggested the plan was also backed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

88.   A TOP World Health Organisation official has backed plans to separate the slaughtering of ducks and geese from chickens.

89.   A U.S.-sponsored plan backed by Canada, Japan and Australia would allow countries to satisfy part of their emissions targets by counting carbons absorbed from forests.

90.   Alliance Quebec first backed the plan to replace religious boards with linguistic bodies, but late last week expressed fear Quebec could just abolish English school boards.