The France team sponsor Credit Agricole, one of the nation's largest banks, said on Monday that it was "suspending our advertising campaign on insurance products that features the French team".
Mr. Coburn, for his part, gave his Democratic co-sponsors credit for stepping up.
Scott L. Thumma, a pioneer in the study of megachurches at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, whose roster of churches was the basis for the Times analysis, said he has noticed churches that sponsor credit unions, issue credit cards and lend to small businesses.
And he seems to: At one point, trying to woo the Pom Wonderful people to put a big chunk of money into his film by offering above-the-title sponsor credit, he brings them ideas for a commercial that he'd insert into the middle of his film (including one about the product's effects on erectile dysfunction, that would have featured a shot of him with an erection).
He can act on the proposal to create a government sponsored small business credit fund to make readily available loans and lines of credit to credit worthy small and medium sized businesses that have been refused loans by banks.
Channel TV said Carphone Warehouse's promotional idents for The X Factor were "broadly comparable to those used in other current and previous sponsor credits on all channels, there was no invitation to purchase and no undue prominence was given to any of the products or services featured".
Indeed, both recently started their own businesses using loans from a new corporate-sponsored credit foundation.
But a union-sponsored credit card is not the same as a union card.
MBNA CORP., Wilmington, Del., the credit card issuer, said it would buy about $51.8 million worth of affinity accounts, credit cards sponsored by universities and other groups that get part of the fees, from Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto.
Thus lowered and lightened by over 400 pounds, with its 358-cubic-inch, push rod V-8 pumping out 750 horsepower, the Gibbs truck, sponsored by MBNA, the credit card company, is capable of an estimated top speed of 185 miles an hour.
