The hefty budget was driven up by cabinetry work in the closets and by luxurious finishes.

Although many elements of the framework are still vague, one fact is clear, that the Pentagon has been given a free hand and a hefty budget to develop an antimissile defense.

However, a few nighttime specials of Trato Hecho were produced with a heftier budget; the Big Deal could be worth up to $26,000 on these episodes.

Critics have faulted that decision, saying the emphasis on bigness was a political move to secure hefty budgets and a large political base.

The formula favors the power conferences, which have more depth, heftier athletic budgets and the marquee names that can attract nonconference matchups that show up on national television.

With a hefty budget, Mr. Daley has been able to rely on television advertisements that call him "a strong leader" who can best unify the city.

The broad canvas of the book - and the film's hefty budget - intimidated Mr. De Palma into wanting to make a movie that was palatable to large audiences.

During the cold war, in addition to a hefty budget for military space operations, Russia spent heavily on its civilian space program.

The strong performance by Steve Forbes in the Iowa caucuses shows that a good charismatician, with a hefty budget, can do well even with unpromising raw material.

But the company is also putting a hefty budget behind its "life style" commercials, which represent the first time Giorgio has used television to advertise a men's fragrance.