The side agreements do not offend Republicans' corporate backers because they call for fines paid for by national governments rather than businesses.

He said that decision was made by Intertainer's board and that none of his original corporate backers have board seats.

In fact, potential corporate backers have probably made a precondition that their money and leverage will only be forthcoming if union influence is annihilated.

Anyway, after the school nearly goes bankrupt, Principal Skinner signs a contract with corporate backers who use the kids to conduct market research.

Since then the foundation has grown to a $500,000 operation, with a full-time staff, corporate and charitable backers, and a growing list of patrons.

A big problem for supporters has been turmoil in the ranks of the wealthy corporate backers of the pact.

Such sentiments figure large in Steger's courtship of potential corporate backers.

They were accumulating all this information about the natural world and passing it back to their corporate and financial backers in Europe.

Otherwise, it is blue sky all the way, with predictions of breakthrough technology and big corporate backers.

Greed and greed alone, as producers pander to their corporate backers' lust for a few more dollars.