21.   The potential investors backed away because of the lawsuits and other problems, Meder said.

22.   Two years ago, Albert Solis, backed by investors Robert Downey Jr. and model Tony Ward, one-time boyfriend of Madonna, opened Mexico City on Hillhurst.

23.   While investors were initially reluctant to back the plan, analysts said approval became more likely after several major investors backed it.

24.   Yet investors are backing the company, analysts said, because they believe GM is fighting the union to cut costs by making its plants more efficient.

25.   At the former Amador U.S. Army base, officials are no longer trying to build three hotels after foreign investors backed out of the multimillion-dollar project.

26.   Earlier this month, the head of the Russian Space Agency, Yuri Koptev, said the mystery investors had backed off.

27.   Foreign investors might have backed away because of her nationalism and calls for immediate, expensive programs to help poor blacks.

28.   Investors backed off mostly on fears that the two banks overlap in too many areas to make the merger worthwhile.

29.   One law banned future gaming halls, the other closed the new casino being built by a joint-venture backed by investors from the Portuguese colony from Macau.

30.   Wheat futures tumbled Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade as investors backed off on earlier speculation that either drought or a late freeze will harm the winter crop.