41.   The National Park Service will sponsor the conference that commissioners will organize, Lewis said.

42.   The Rochester Institute sponsored a conference on re-manufacturing in June.

43.   The Presley estate at Graceland in Memphis and the Tupelo Convention and Visitors Bureau, which sponsored the conference last year, have refused to renew funding.

44.   The two-day conference was sponsored by the state and the Nassau and Suffolk county emergency-management offices in partnership with Long Island Lighting Co.

45.   The United Nations will sponsor a conference on the subject this summer.

46.   There we ran into Jeff Eisenach, who runs the group sponsoring the conference, the Progress and Freedom Foundation.

47.   This week three militant lawyers and a fundamentalist leader, Sheik Hafez Salama, filed a lawsuit to prevent the government from sponsoring the conference.

48.   They will also sponsor a conference where Israeli companies will showcase their businesses to investors.

49.   Another bumper London Fashion Week got under way Friday, bolstered by news that the government is to sponsor a conference of British designers.

50.   Businesses and various lobbying interests sponsor conferences for federal judges, paying airfare, hotel and other expenses.