1.   A spokesman says the president has backed off from his threat to boycott the conference.

2.   Amid a chorus of rebukes, the president backed down, but his Liberal Party may still get them through Congress.

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

4.   But the president backed off when Helms and the Republican leadership signaled that such a move could devastate the relationship between the White House and the Senate.

5.   But would her president back her?

6.   Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry, after the meeting, said that the president had not backed away from the land for peace initiative.

7.   Is it to make the Iraqi president back down and allow United Nations inspections or is it to destroy his arsenal?

8.   Rangel said it would be politically unwise for the president to back away from a commitment to redressing discrimination.

9.   The president also has backed off from hot button choices.

10.   The president backs a measure sponsored by Rep. Ernie Fletcher, R-Ky., a family physician.