111.  Money contributed to the national party often is spent elsewhere.

112.  Muskie defied a labor-oriented national party on the environment and on spending restraint.

113.  Mrs. Yudina had recently become a local co-chairwoman of a national liberal party headed by Grigory Yavlinsky, who this week called her the victim of a political assassination.

114.  NBC invited its new best friend, Vince Carter, Skywalker, to a national party on Sunday.

115.  Neither Mayawati nor Yadav is willing to accept crumbs from the tables of the two major national parties.

116.  Now, legislative campaigns have become centralized in the state parties, with strategic advice and money flowing directly from the national parties.

117.  Northeast Republicans and Southern Democrats are, in many ways, mirror images, politicians who must often separate themselves from their national parties to stay alive.

118.  Once such money was largely the purview of the national political parties, not their congressional arms.

119.  One measure sponsored by Rep. Asa Hutchinson, an Arkansas Republican, would ban soft money donations to the national political parties but not to the state parties.

120.  On a bus tour in southern New Jersey Wednesday, Whitman laughed when asked about her edge in resources from the national party.