11.   And rather than support affirmative action programs, McCain said that now was the time to provide increased training and education programs for minorities.

12.   Apparently the program must be supported by elaborate proof that minorities have been systematically excluded from specific markets.

13.   Area foundations were delighted to find that grant requests to support homeless programs arrived as joint ventures from agencies that used to compete for funds.

14.   As conservatives step up efforts to curb bilingual education, a survey of Hispanics released Thursday shows that an overwhelming majority support such programs.

15.   As government regulatory schemes take shape, companies should speak up and support programs that give them flexibility in deciding how to reduce emissions.

16.   As conference participants noted, the field has become increasingly commercial and competitive, with groups scrambling to support programs in the face of cuts in government money.

17.   As for private foundations, they tend to support programs that advance their own agendas.

18.   As state attorney general, Norton supported a program in which corporate polluters were allowed to report infractions voluntarily and fix them without informing the public.

19.   Becker surveys journalism graduates annually for the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, a foundation that supports programs to train student journalists.

20.   Both support incentive programs for private landowners to encourage restoration of wildlife habitat, and both are champions of the federal Conservation and Reinvestment Act.