11.   The energy industry clearly has an ally in Abraham, who was also the top Senate recipient of funds from the transportation industry.

12.   The Intellectual Property Owners Association recently released its ranking of the top patent recipients.

13.   The top individual recipients of gambling dollars were mostly politicians from Nevada and New Jersey, the states with the largest casino revenues.

14.   The top New England recipient is Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, who stepped down in January after two years as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

15.   The top recipients are listed below.

16.   The state is the top recipient per capita of research grants from the National Institutes of Health.

17.   The top recipient was Loma Linda University, a private campus in California with a well-connected congressman, Representative Jerry Lewis.

18.   WITH TER-GIVING-DATA -- Top corporate and institutional givers and top recipients.

19.   Yet two GOP candidates for the presidential nomination ranked second and third to Senator Kennedy among the top individual recipients.

20.   After Israel and Egypt, Ukraine is among the top recipients of U.S. foreign assistance.