New sponsors joined the series, while old ones expanded their investments — U.B.S., Banco Santander and L.G. Electronics among them.
There is a marriage between the team sponsors and the celebrations, too, as sponsors join in the festivities, like Virgin Mobile Canada's sponsoring the Crescent Street Festival this year.
As support grew over the years, more bipartisan sponsors joined the amendment.
Existing research suggests that finding a sponsor, joining a home group, asking others for help when fearing relapse, providing service to others, and striving for a more spiritual life all appear to help sustain abstinence.
On Friday, three new co-sponsors joined the 120 congressmen who have already backed the so-called USA Freedom Act, but their reform bill faces tough competition from rival lawmakers who claim the president's broad support for the NSA favours separate efforts to protect its powers.
America's biggest pension funds lost ground in the first quarter and are likely to require larger contributions from their corporate sponsors this year, joining the ranks of homeowners, lenders and others hurt by the recent turmoil in the financial markets.
We'll invite sponsors to join us.
"This is a meteor," she added, noting a continuing reluctance of many fund sponsors to join the fray.
No new sponsors have joined up since last year's World Cup in Brazil, and a projected target of $6bn for the 2018 tournament is beginning to look ambitious.
At Super Bowl XLIV in February, the less-known sponsors that joined the ranks of household names like Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Honda and Volkswagen included Flo TV, a new mobile television service, and HomeAway, which offers vacation-rental listings.
