1.   Also unclear is how big a check they will need to write and how much outside help they will require.

2.   Anyone under the impression that Turner just wrote out a big check and walked away feeling good about himself has not seen Turner in action.

3.   Big checks bought him more advertising than Priceline.com.

4.   Across Texas, churches took special collections and corporations wrote big checks.

5.   ACOG will argue that they are perfect Olympic sponsors, as they meet the exceptionally high standard of being able to write really big checks.

6.   After all, the insurance companies are the ones writing the big checks.

7.   All of them, the fund-raisers had assumed, merely needed to be pushed to write the big checks, preferably by Clinton or Gore.

8.   All most people want from American Family Publishers is a big check delivered by Ed McMahon, but Geraldine Biggs would like an apology as well.

9.   But being situated next to these gleaming new projects is the equivalent of being personally handed another big check.

10.   But Geffen has been the object of open criticism about not writing a big check.