61.   Republican sponsors said they would put the motion up for a vote only if at least five Democrats backed the plan.

62.   SEC market-regulation director Richard Lindsey also backed the plan, the executives said.

63.   Several political heavyweights have backed the plan.

64.   Singapore Airlines and Brierley have agreed to back this plan, according to the government.

65.   Shareholders backed the plan at a Paris meeting in July.

66.   Some Republicans back this plan as a way to increase the number of Americans with health insurance without increasing the size of government bureaucracy.

67.   State House leaders appear to be backing a plan that favors U.S. Rep. Ronnie Shows, a Democrat.

68.   The Austrian-born farm leader backs a plan to label all raw materials or products containing biotech corn or soybeans imported into and processed in the EU.

69.   The bondholders have not agreed to do so, the company said, although Motorola, its biggest investor, backs the plan.

70.   The coalition backing the plan knows its fragile concoction could easily shatter before the vote.