1.   The foundation also lobbies the government to increase surveillance and research into this disease, and it sponsors international conferences.

2.   And it has sponsored conferences to help grass-roots organizations and housing advocacy groups devise ways to draw more capital into poorer neighborhoods.

3.   And Lehman Brothers is sponsoring a conference in February for education companies and institutional investors to look at the investment opportunities being presented by changes in education.

4.   Axworthy also said Canada would sponsor a conference to study pinpointing more accurately the source of rough diamonds and their paths to market.

5.   ECPAT, UNICEF and a group of organizations that work with children are sponsoring the conference.

6.   Gore and his wife have sponsored the conference every year for the last eight years.

7.   He said the panel, which he will lead, planned to sponsor conferences in search of a common ground for Catholics on issues affecting the church and society.

8.   In its four-year life, the forum sponsored conferences on policy issues that brought together corporate lobbyists and other interested parties with Republican congressional leaders.

9.   In April, the United Nations sponsored a conference on sustainable development, with three days devoted to tourism.

10.   In December, the White House will sponsor a conference of experts to address the issue.