Critics such as William D. Hartung, Head of the Arms Trade Resource Center, felt that it was inappropriate to appoint businessmen whose companies would be the prime benefactor of any increase in defense spending.

The brokerage industry - one of the prime benefactors of this bull market - has been both a source of tremendous profit growth, driven by an increasingly investment-hungry populace, and heavy speculation about new banking combinations.

Last month the museum's prime benefactor, Peter Lewis, an automobile insurance magnate from Ohio, came to its rescue with a last-minute infusion of $12 million, just enough to start 2003 with a balanced budget.

It is named after Elihu Yale, best known for being the prime benefactor of Yale University.

The meeting last month with the guerrilla leaders was presided over by Major General Khalid Mehmood, the second in command of Inter-Services Intelligence, the sprawling agency that has long served as the guerrillas' prime benefactor.

Historically wary of its giant neighbor, Laos relied on the Soviet Union as its prime benefactor until it collapsed.

He is a prime benefactor of a foundation in India that identifies talented students without funds, and provides them with college tuition and living expenses.

Senser is a 1974 graduate of Milton Hershey School, a home for underprivileged children and the prime benefactor of Milton Hershey's legacy.

Like some sort of nimble street creature, the theater will be known as Red Cat, an acronym for Roy and Edna Disney, its two prime benefactors, and Cal Arts theater.

Ted Tally has finished writing the screenplay and Dino De Laurentiis was to be one of the prime financial benefactors of the project.