All parties amount to the same thing: corporate cash and the bottom line.

In Mr. DeLay's case, a large part of the answer is his control over corporate cash.

So corporate cash, once split more or less evenly between the parties, increasingly flows in only one direction.

These are pools that invest excess corporate cash with an emphasis on the short-term period.

Critics say that accepting corporate cash threatens to compromise the agency's reputation and priorities.

Already this has driven the House to take its momentous step to slow the spigots of corporate cash.

This was fresh evidence of a dangerous new epidemic: the infection of science by corporate cash.

Could it be that corporate cash accumulated because of the surging number of companies that had initial public offerings in the 1980's and 1990's?

So what is the main cause of the climb in corporate cash?

This is going to be a terrific year for earnings and corporate cash flows remain huge.