1.   Any hint of scandal or controversy, of course, sends a chill up the spines of pageant sponsors.

2.   Mrs. Pederson said that liability insurance will not cover the costs from the lawsuit and that she has lost pageant sponsors since the dispute began.

3.   The new Miss World has close ties to one of the judges and a major pageant sponsor.

4.   The winner of the Miss World beauty pageant dismissed suggestions Sunday that her business ties to one of the judges and pageant sponsors represented a conflict of interest.