Knight has been a primary source of financing for MinnPost.com, in Minneapolis, and the Voice of San Diego, the two most advanced Web-only local news operations.
Then about two years ago, as the AARP lawsuit was added to First Alliance's legal troubles, Lehman Brothers became the company's primary source of financing.
Since the M.D.A. was founded in 1950, it's been the world's primary source of financing of services and research bearing on muscle disease.
It was hard to recruit families from the beginning, said Margot Brandenburg, an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation, the primary source of financing.
The charter says that it is also part of the public school system and that the district, its primary source of financing, has not paid it anything since last spring.
The troubles at Doctors Community began in late October when National Century, one of the largest health care finance companies in the country and the primary source of financing for most of its clients, began to fall apart.
The Medicare payroll tax is the primary source of financing for Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund, which pays hospital bills for beneficiaries, who are 65 and older or disabled.
The housing agency is charged by Congress with minimizing the cost of bailing out Fannie and Freddie, which were seized by the government in 2008 to preserve their role as the primary source of financing for new mortgage loans.
According to reports, the Fortress Investment Group, the hedge fund and private equity firm that is the primary source of financing for the $1 billion Olympic Village near downtown, received an advance of 100 million Canadian dollars from the Vancouver City Council to cover cost overruns.
Looming over the debate are the fortunes of the Fortress Investment Group, the hedge fund and private equity firm that controls the main Olympic skiing site, Whistler Blackcomb, and is the primary source of financing for a $1 billion athletes' village now under construction downtown.
