1.   Pension funds also can help California firms to break into more global Markets by forming partnerships.

2.   Six hundred and thirty balloons were released at the ceremony -- one for every ten people the fund helped last year.

3.   Although state funds help to even things out, the disparities become another reason to move.

4.   And the nonprofit fund helps maintain the churchyards, because they are always in danger of being plowed over by neighboring farmers.

5.   Beyond conserving individual tracts of land, the fund helps companies dispose of developed land and buildings no longer needed for their operations.

6.   A similar fund helped cut immigrant flows from poor to rich countries of the EU, Fox contended.

7.   But federal funds could help address those and other preparedness issues locally and at other health departments statewide, Brewer said.

8.   By heavily investing in mortgage-backed securities, pension funds have helped to finance a construction boom.

9.   Congressional support is important because Phoenix sold its light-rail system with the promise that federal funds would help build it.