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But the army is split along party lines and anxious not to sully its reputation (it makes a lucrative contribution to United Nations peacekeeping operations).

The Latino advocacy group Presente published a "Wanted" poster last week with photos of five of the Assembly members who have not yet come out in support of the bill, accusing them of betraying their constituents and the environment due to lucrative contributions from petroleum companies.

It requires presidential and Congressional candidates to report to the public on their lucrative bundled contributions — the large packages of multiple donations that lobbyists and other favor-seekers amass to secure out-size gratitude from candidates.

Because they were "paid" to look the other way, through lucrative fees, campaign contributions or future employment opportunities.

The Information Technology Industry Council, a lobbying group, told lawmakers that it would count their vote on trade authority twice when tallying how supportive they were to the high-tech cause -- potentially costing those who voted against the measure a lucrative source of campaign contributions.

The disclosure from the Obama team came two weeks after the FBI arrested Blagojevich, and said it had wiretaps of the governor trying to leverage his authority to appoint a replacement for Obama into campaign contributions and lucrative jobs for him and his wife.

The lawyers are laying bare every penny, every cent, the Rooneys earn — from his £90,000 a week basic salary to the £1 million a year Nike contract, the E.A. Games deal, the Coca-Cola sponsorship, the five books Rooney is supposed to pen over his career, and the also lucrative income for Coleen's contributions to celebrity magazines, TV shows, and her own book royalties.

Because of a long and seedy record of companies attempting to buy lucrative government contracts through campaign contributions to those who issue the contracts -- or, just as bad, because of government officials extorting money from companies wishing to do business with the government -- federal contractors have been banned from making campaign contributions since 1940.

Designed to prevent bankers and politicians from exchanging campaign contributions for the lucrative right to manage state pension funds, the rule triggered a Goldman Sachs memo banning certain categories of employees from donating to campaigns that feature a sitting state or local official.

Its lucrative computer printer business -- whose contribution merger opponents warned would be watered down in the combined company -- continued to thrive, generating strong profits.

On Sunday night, at a celebrity-studded ceremony in Silicon Valley, five teams of researchers received the lucrative Breakthrough Prize for their outstanding contributions to science.