1.   Merchant banks, sugar companies, arms dealers.

2.   And unless Kirk is successful in his suit against the sugar companies, the IRS may never see all the money it says Kirk owes.

3.   A contract with the little Jack Frost sugar company kept Cumberland alive, but without a branded line of its own it was little more than a marginal operation.

4.   But the sugar companies mounted a blizzard of legal challenges that threatened to delay the cleanup indefinitely.

5.   Environmental groups say it should set aside more land from sugar companies.

6.   Fanjul and his brother Alfonso run Flo-Sun Sugar Co., a Florida-based sugar company.

7.   Iansa in July made and then withdrew a bid for Argentine sugar company Ingenio y Refinaria San Martin del Tabacal SA.

8.   Indeed, the sugar companies not only survived the just-concluded battle over the Everglades restoration plan, but guaranteed their future water supplies.

9.   It limited the amount the sugar companies would pay to about a fourth of the total cleanup cost.

10.   On this afternoon, Fanjul, chairman and CEO of Florida Crystals sugar company, was casual in khaki trousers and a short-sleeved shirt.