21.   The conference takes place just before the Cooperation opens its Bank of Trade and Development, which will back project financing in the region.

22.   The firm waited a year to back his project.

23.   The project is backed by the Port of Portland and five smaller ports downriver.

24.   The project is backed by an investment partnership that includes prominent local corporations such as Bank One and Tandy Corp.

25.   Your tax dollars backed the project John wrote about in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.

26.   A Western-led consortium that will tap the Azeri oil is said to favor the Turkish option and the United States is also said to back the project.

27.   A Western-led consortium that will tap the Azeri oil is said to favor the Turkish option and the United States is also said to back that project.

28.   American investor and philanthropist George Soros backs numerous projects in former communist countries, many aimed at economic and cultural development.

29.   And they add that although the Clinton administration strongly backed the project, the new U.S. administration has yet to put its weight behind the plan.

30.   As the Kaeng Sua Ten project has become controversial, the politicians and bureaucrats backing the project have played up the secondary benefits of electricity generation and flood control.