A VICE review of recent campaign filings show that the two committees share many of the same top 25 donors: Wal-Mart, Pfizer, tobacco giant Reynolds America, PhRMA (a drug industry trade group), AT&T, and Comcast cut the biggest checks for both the RSLC and the DLCC.
Kat begins to to train Danny in his palatial but unfurnished home; Danny's big check for advance payments will help Trevor expand the gym.
And when Grohl gets his first big check for his work with Nirvana, he buys himself a BB gun because he didn't have one as a child.
Perhaps she would rather write one big check — for a large, shared expense — and let you take care of all the dinners, cabs and movies?
Ideally, she would want Mr. Langerfeld to wait until full retirement age to collect Social Security, which would yield a bigger check, for him and for his wife, should she live longer.
And because guides are seldom so wealthy they can turn away business, the overriding criterion for joining an expedition will always be the ability to write a big check for the guiding fee.
When I asked if Bryant had written a "big check" for his homeless foundation, Neilson said, "No, he wrote a small check, but it is my hope, as he sees the impact of his philanthropy, that he'll start writing bigger checks".
Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a "Don't Be Evil" benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
AT&T's stake is generally considered to be worth at least $10 billion, and AT&T has been trying to sell it back to AOL for years, but AOL has seen no reason to write such a big check for a stake in a venture that it already controls.
To win health-care funding for workers who cleaned up the toxic ruins of the World Trade Center, she harangued Republicans reluctant to write a big check for New York so much that they asked Schumer to get her to lay off.
