The announcement will chiefly benefit users who run huge programs on I.B.M. equipment, especially for numerically intensive engineering and mathematical tasks.

A Two-Thirds Majority The Governor said homeowners and renters would receive twice the benefit from a direct rebate, and said sending the money to the municipalities would chiefly benefit "businesses and landlords."

Liberals complain that its actions in Asia chiefly benefit the likes of Citicorp and J. P. Morgan, to say nothing of Japan's biggest banks, often at the expense of workers - both abroad and in the United States - whose jobs are threatened by its policies.

National Football League officials met yesterday and on Monday with executives from CBS and Fox Sports, hoping to persuade them to agree to a scheduling change that would chiefly benefit the slipping ratings of ABC's "Monday Night Football."

Again, the 1854 provision of state aid to Indian schools, from which missionary establishments chiefly benefited, was defended by Sir Charles Wood, first Viscount Halifax, with notable ambivalence, on the grounds that 'it will strengthen our empire.

The amnesty "chiefly benefited the military-linked death squads," the Globe and Mail commented accurately.

Critics say the park will chiefly benefit the games and Coca-Cola, the corporate giant whose environs will undergo a massive dose of urban renewal.

And that just as the cuts in Federal subsidies will hurt the poorest and benefit the richest, so Mr. Gingrich's changes in environmental rules will chiefly benefit investors.

Several Democrats expressed reservations about an amnesty, arguing that it would chiefly benefit high-income taxpayers, or at least those able to pay their full bills, and that it would effectively reward them while other delinquent taxpayers would have to negotiate payment plans not exempt from interest or penalties.

It could be argued that eliminating a complex quota system and preferential treatments would chiefly benefit the industries of developing countries.