Mehlman's preoccupation with free labor might seem odd, since the Bush campaign is the single most lavishly financed election effort ever to grace the planet.

The mission's success is considered important to help convince both the new Administration and a skeptical Congress that the program should continue to be lavishly financed despite the nation's budget problems.

There are, however, both in the public and in the private realms, poorly financed schools that educate quite well, often better than more lavishly financed neighbors.

The tests are meant to show technical progress and, perhaps as important, to persuade a skeptical Congress that the controversial program should continue to be lavishly financed despite the nation's budget problems.

DESPITE lavishly financed assaults over the years by practically every other large automaker, Chrysler remains king in minivans, with its 42 percent market share.

Condé Nast is known for large, lavishly financed magazines with circulations of about one million and 1,000 pages of advertising annually.

In its heyday, the office was one of the most lavishly financed county cultural agencies in the state, with a budget that reached $2.5 million in 1989.

The cable and telephone companies have fought net neutrality with a lavishly financed and misleading lobbying campaign, because they stand to gain an enormous windfall.

That was the beginning of a long career in which he pursued every avenue to scrounge money for research in a field that had never been lavishly financed.

If yachts or Cadillacs were crammed into Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum, elitist art could be lavishly financed.