1.   Now their campaign is being carried out without the mass of top party politicians they had to back them up last year.

2.   As the Soviet Union collapsed, and since, he has often been seen in the company of top politicians and figures of artistic resistance.

3.   A number of top politicians and bureaucrats said this week that the government will not intervene to help the stock market.

4.   But domestic conflicts are stirring this pot, too, and threatening Miami and its two top politicians with their own Bay of Pigs.

5.   Evermore investigations produce evermore evidence of wrongdoing, not just among top politicians and businessmen but also among ordinary Italians.

6.   He also criticized Villanueva obliquely in his inaugural speech in a baseball stadium here before hundreds of top politicians.

7.   He then met with several top Israeli politicians, culminating with a dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

8.   Many top Indian politicians, including Indira and Rajiv Gandhi and Rao, have been accused of accepting bribes that have made them wealthy.

9.   Norodom Sirivudh, a half-brother of King Norodom Sihanouk and a top royalist politician, says he plans to return to Cambodia from Paris.

10.   Prosecutors are investigating whether Nomura bribed top politicians and bureaucrats, the Japanese press reports.