1.   And Microsoft apparently made a side deal to back the effort of one of the bidders, Cox Communications.

2.   And they are also backing efforts to get voters to the polls.

3.   Armey says that the plotters misunderstood his intentions and that he never backed their efforts.

4.   Ashcroft, however, told Inhofe he backed his efforts, Hoitsma said.

5.   Bread for the World, begun by a Lutheran pastor, lobbies on hunger issues, backing its efforts with research and church-level education.

6.   After hunkering down for the better part of a year and beating back Republican efforts to kill the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Cisneros is back.

7.   Brittan said the U.S. had nevertheless backed EU efforts to press the other nations to join the interim accord, recognizing the market-opening benefits for everyone.

8.   But BP Amoco, the giant British oil company that unceasingly proclaims its environmental responsibility, is backing efforts to have it opened up as an oil field.

9.   But BP Amoco, the giant British oil company that unceasingly proclaims its environmental responsibility, is backing efforts to have it developed as an oil field.

10.   But President Vladimir Putin said Moscow backs any efforts to control the spread of terrorism to the Pankisi Gorge.