The effort elicited exactly one sponsor: Glad Products, which gave an unspecified six-figure donation and a gift of 100,000 garbage bags.

In return for six-figure donations, a Republican soft-money contributor could get meetings with Republican Congressional leaders and committee chairmen.

But that has not stopped wealthy donors from legally circumventing these state contribution limits to shower six-figure donations on the Spitzer campaign.

He has made six-figure donations to build a high school, a church and a sports complex in the Dominican Republic.

Randi says Johnny Carson was a major sponsor, giving several six-figure donations.

The flood of six-figure donations to the political parties reached a record of nearly half a billion dollars in the 2000 election.

McCarthy received several six-figure donations from affluent individuals deeply opposed to the war in Vietnam.

But I'm convinced that by representing this whole slice of culture in New York, we can attract five- or six-figure donations.

A few years ago, an alumnus who was negotiating a six-figure donation to Middlebury decided to hold off until the admissions committee had ruled on his child's application.

They take comfort in their "white-like-me" hires as a perk of owning the program with their six-figure donations.