1.   And Republicans suspect the invitation as a political payoff by the endowment chairman, a Clinton appointee.

2.   And there is a potential political payoff for the Bush administration because those in the service are widely thought to vote heavily Republican.

3.   As the senior Democrat on the foreign operations subcommittee, she works on foreign debt relief, an issue with few headlines or political payoffs.

4.   But the Senate should take no part in such a political payoff.

5.   But to maximize the political payoff, Clinton could not resist making the announcement at a World Jewish Congress dinner, while wearing a yarmulke.

6.   Democrats had accused the Pataki administration of making a blatant political payoff in trying to shift the jobs to Republican areas.

7.   Dick Harpootlian, a lawyer and former prosecutor who lost to Condon in the race for attorney general, said the political payoff is what motivates this crusade.

8.   In addition, developing countries need to spend more on human needs and less on military buildups and political payoffs.

9.   In return, these Republican mugwumps demanded political payoffs in government jobs and positions.

10.   Is this political payoff so certain?