1.   Both initiatives were backed by presidents Reagan and Bush.

2.   Both the White House and Congress back the initiatives.

3.   Both conservative and liberal groups backed significant initiatives this year.

4.   He suggested that Bush would be eager to advance Web-based education programs because he had backed similar initiatives as governor of Texas.

5.   Late Wednesday night, news services reported that leaders of both the left-wing Communist Party and the western-oriented Union of Right Forces back the initiatives.

6.   Romer vows to clean up alleged abuses by the DNC and backs new initiatives to overhaul campaign finance laws.

7.   The ballot initiative was backed by billionaire George Soros.

8.   The other initiative is backed by a coalition led by the Service Employees International Union.

9.   U.S. commodities groups representing wheat, sugar, dairy and barley are backing the initiative to dismantle these bodies.

10.   But French President Jacques Chirac has implied that France would pull its peacekeepers out of Bosnia if that military initiative was not backed by its U.N. allies.