1.   American depositary receipts are securities backed by foreign shares and traded in the U.S. Global depositary receipts are similar, but traded elsewhere, such as in London.

2.   Backing the quartet are three horn players, a keyboardist, percussionist and two background singers.

3.   Backing it were accounting firms and brokers, while consumer groups and regulators opposed it, concerned that duped investors would have little recourse.

4.   Backing PCS Primeco are Nynex, Bell Atlantic, US West and Airtouch Communications, a cellular company spun off last year by Pacific Telesis.

5.   Backing up Milloy is daunting, however.

6.   Backing the company were many of the residents of the rock-ribbed Republican communities along the upper Hudson River.

7.   Tele-Communications Inc., Time Warner, Comcast, Newhouse Broadcasting, Contintental Cablevision and Cox Cable are all backing the venture.

8.   Also backing the proposal is the United Left party and Euskal Herritarrok, a coalition linked to the armed separatist group ETA.

9.   Backing Alberta are hunting groups, aboriginal leaders and the National Firearms Association.

10.   Backing the plan are the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Italy and the Czech Republic.