Word: chest
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...point is that big money follows the front-runner. Bill Clinton's huge war chest proves that. As G.W. Dumhoff documented in The Powers That Be (1978), it doesn't matter whether the candidate is a Democrat or a Republican--fat cats want a stake in the winner. In fact, a 1972 study showed that 36 percent of contributors who gave $10,000 and up contributed to candidates of both political parties...
...assailants allegedly struck Hilton in the face and upper body, and knocked him to the ground when he tried to escape, police said. While on the ground, they kicked Hilton in the stomach, the chest and the rib cage before he fled, police said...
...rookie playing with the first team. (Leno will be hiring a staff of six or seven writers for the Tonight show -- which will include some of this group as well as a rabbi from New Jersey and an ad executive from Philadelphia, both longtime contributors to the Leno joke chest...
After last Tuesday's contests, the former Senator from Massachusetts and the Arkansas Governor emerged as joint front runners. Bob Kerrey, losing badly everywhere, quit the race, and Tom Harkin's war chest is empty. Jerry Brown's narrow win in Colorado will allow him to continue receiving federal matching funds to wage a guerrilla operation...
Mcerwa has already come close to dying. In a fight with A.N.C. members two years ago, his head was slashed open with a panga. In another incident, an unknown assailant shot him in the chest. But these brushes with death have not softened his militancy a bit. He does not accept the A.N.C.'s decision to suspend military attacks and ease sanctions. "The highest form of negotiation," he says, "is armed struggle...