11.   Birch has been successful raising money, even when other telephone competitors were closing their doors because they lacked funding.

12.   A. First, members of Congress spend enormous amounts of their time raising money.

13.   Across town, meanwhile, the Democrats will be busy raising money themselves.

14.   But at the City University of New York, with its history of free tuition and state and city financing, raising money has never been a high priority.

15.   But for Republicans, it has come to symbolize the extraordinary lengths that the Democratic Party and the Clinton-Gore campaign went to in raising money last year.

16.   But raising money for the cash-strapped city is only part of the strategy.

17.   But raising money for the project has proved difficult.

18.   But raising money sounded good, too.

19.   But raising money in this manner carries far too high a price.

20.   But the department has suggested that raising money for direct campaign purposes on federal property might be illegal, although some legal experts dispute that reading of the law.