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  • He also has a number of assets: Americans like him if not his policies; recent polling shows him scoring better on foreign policy and national security matters than on the economy; he is likely to have a very large campaign war-chest; the RNC remains in financially dire straits, and Democratic-aligned third-party groups will play in the 2012 race just as Republican-aligned groups will.

    'Who Republicans nominate still matters greatly' | Richard Adams 2011

  • He also has a number of assets: Americans like him if not his policies; recent polling shows him scoring better on foreign policy and national security matters than on the economy; he is likely to have a very large campaign war-chest; the RNC remains in financially dire straits, and Democratic-aligned third-party groups will play in the 2012 race just as Republican-aligned groups will.

    'Who Republicans nominate still matters greatly' | Richard Adams 2011

  • Most see the acquisition as Google's effort to gain control over the hardware platform for Android phones, and to obtain a new war-chest of patents.

    Stephen Estes: Google's Motorola Acquisition Shifts the Battle Stephen Estes 2011

  • As time went by the FARC increasingly devoted itself to cocaine trafficking to build a flush war-chest.

    Colombian Insurgents Vow a Battle Darcy Crowe 2011

  • Without a substantial war-chest, a challenger is dead in the water: lacking the daily exposure of the incumbent, and the means to travel all over the country to talk to rank-and-file members even if no incumbent runs, he or she cannot hope to succeed.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Most see the acquisition as Google's effort to gain control over the hardware platform for Android phones, and to obtain a new war-chest of patents.

    Stephen Estes: Google's Motorola Acquisition Shifts the Battle Stephen Estes 2011

  • Most see the acquisition as Google's effort to gain control over the hardware platform for Android phones, and to obtain a new war-chest of patents.

    Stephen Estes: Google's Motorola Acquisition Shifts the Battle Stephen Estes 2011

  • "The biggest change I will put into place at Havas will be the new offensive phase with a war-chest to invest," Mr. Jones said in an interview at Havas's headquarters in the Paris suburb of Suresnes.

    New Havas CEO on Prowl for Deals Ruth Bender 2011

  • Yet the challenge for any committee chairman is to both invest in off-year elections and amass a war-chest for midterms.

    Michael Steele's Job Kimberley Strassel 2010

  • Yet the challenge for any committee chairman is to both invest in off-year elections and amass a war-chest for midterms.

    Michael Steele's Job Kimberley Strassel 2010

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