21.   The potential political payoff is huge.

22.   This is a political payoff.

23.   Too bad the choices are often based on political payoffs.

24.   Worse yet, such a tax cut would look remarkably like a political payoff.

25.   Police have arrested an Italian businessman wanted in Belgium in connection with a political payoff scandal, officials said Thursday.

26.   Ardanza said the ETA cannot be defeated and will not stop killing without receiving a political payoff.

27.   Berlusconi has been indicted for tax evasion, bribing tax inspectors and covering up political payoffs.

28.   Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, on trial since January on corruption charges, was indicted Friday in a separate case involving alleged political payoffs.

29.   The warrant was issued last Friday in a case involving alleged political payoffs in the building of a Milan subway line.

30.   The warrant was issued Friday in a case involving alleged political payoffs in the building of a Milan subway line.