91.  In the Hollywood film, President Andrew Shepherd is reluctant to spend political capital on putting tough provisions into two bills concerning crime and the environment.

92.  In the meantime, clamping down on development would require our current elected officials to expend some political capital.

93.  In this environment, granting clemency has become an act of courage that requires an outlay of political capital few governors are willing to spend.

94.  Initial reports on Mei Xiang and Tian Tian suggested they might be role models for this political capital in its fruitless search for civility.

95.  In the Northern Alliance political capital of Faizabad, there is a university where women are permitted to attend medical school.

96.  In this city, the political capital of the area controlled by the nationalist Bosnian Croat party, some foreign officials say fear has virtually silenced the opposition.

97.  In Topeka, Kan., the buzz is that Gov. Bill Graves is squandering his political capital.

98.  It is not yet clear whether Bush is prepared to invest the huge amount of political capital needed to scrap existing arms programs and invest in new ones.

99.  It has become the defining issue of his presidency, the square on which he has plunked his political capital.

100.  It is hard to pity Bill Clinton, whose libidinous waste of political capital takes the throw-away culture to new depths.