1.   Along with documents surfacing elsewhere, however, they suggest U.S. officials backed Condor nations not only with military aid, but with information.

2.   American officials backed the proposal in part because they are concerned that North Korea might launch a desperation attack against the South.

3.   At the same time, observers agree Bush officials probably will back off on a controversial attempt to apply civil rights law to the environment.

4.   A leading French official also backed the call for action.

5.   After the vote was publicized, the officials backed away from that change.

6.   After initially refusing to comply with a Daily News public records request for a list of bills the district owes on Belmont, school officials backed down last week.

7.   But conference officials backed out of the deal when they discovered SNAP was a party to a lawsuit filed against the Catholic Church.

8.   But after an hour meeting with the ATP, officials backed down and awarded the spot to Felix Mantilla, who was next in the computer ranking.

9.   But earlier this week, federal health officials backed Donoghue.

10.   But residents living near the park resisted the move, and town officials backed down.