11.   Both bills would ban large unlimited donations to the national political parties.

12.   Both Democrats and Republicans went begging for large donations from people with names like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Frick and Harriman.

13.   Bonney and White House spokesman Mike McCurry blamed current law for forcing them to seek out such large donations.

14.   According to bank records and public records, some contributors clearly did not have the financial means to make the large donations that were made in their name.

15.   Bush has given no indications that he will refuse large donations.

16.   But Chung was widely known as a suspicious character with a habit of dropping by the White House with business clients, often after making large donations.

17.   But Feingold said it would hardly cut down on large donations.

18.   But Lisa Marie Bongiovanni, a Mattel spokeswoman, said the company had decided to make a large donation because it was an ideal way to help children.

19.   But Stevens asked La Pierre whether state lawmakers could have reasonably concluded, even without actual evidence, that large donations corrupt politics.

20.   But such an approach is simply undercut in the eyes of the world when it looks like nothing more than a payoff for a large political donation.