Roger Penske, richly financed by Philip Morris and Mercedes-Benz, is either gambling a lot of money or using it to buy a victory in the Indianapolis 500 next month.

After Metallurg crashed out of the playoffs with a semifinal loss to Roman Abramovich's richly financed Avangard Omsk, King returned for the start of this season.

The new economy was never the handful of highly publicized and richly financed start-ups that appeared in such abundance to exploit the Internet.

Many of the dot-coms and telecommunications companies were richly financed by venture capitalists during their brief existences, and they equipped their offices with state-of-the art telephone systems, computers and furnishings.

Japan has one of the most richly financed and technologically advanced militaries, but its armed forces are constitutionally barred from use in settling international disputes.

On the other are the increasingly well armed and richly financed leftist guerrillas.

Robert D. Johnson, the new chief executive of Dubai Aerospace, the Persian Gulf emirate's richly financed start-up aerospace company, wants to change the way you fly.

What in the world are these heavily armed and richly financed people supposed to do anymore?

Bush campaign officials said they had a candidate who was better than their campaign, which was in itself a tightly run, richly financed and highly disciplined message machine.

Both organizations are well run and so richly financed that they can pursue almost any prized player.