1.   Although tobacco ads are prohibited, companies get around the ban by sponsoring music shows.

2.   Also, the Smithsonian Institution will sponsor educational shows, including an appearance by several astronauts.

3.   A few years later he sponsored lavish shows of Mexican art and Italian Renaissance paintings.

4.   A year ago, Hugo Boss made a five-year commitment to the Guggenheim to sponsor shows and agreed to collaborate on this award.

5.   Companies with a financial stake in romance sponsor the show.

6.   Gates has persuaded a select group of companies, Coca-Cola and USAir, among them, to sponsor the show.

7.   His club sponsors a show every year in February in West Palm Beach that attracts hundreds of enthusiasts.

8.   In the coming week, Chabot Observatory in Oakland will sponsor planetarium shows about comets and telescope observations of Hale-Bopp.

9.   NBC said no advertisers had expressed any concern about sponsoring the show this week.

10.   Richard Welch, creative director of the Hallmark Hall of Fame and executive producer for Hallmark Entertainment, castigated other advertisers for their failure to sponsor quality shows.