1.   As president of the European Council he arbitrated in an argument over cereal prices.

2.   Grain-based cereal prices already have come under fire from Capitol Hill, with a report in mid-March by Reps.

3.   Over the latter generally slowly improving money wages brought a degree of improvement in real wages because cereal prices were generally low over the first half of the century.

4.   Breakfast cereal prices are getting easier to swallow.

5.   Additionally, breakfast cereal prices continue to fall as Kellogg Co., General Mills Inc. and Philip Morris Cos. battle it out on supermarket shelves.

6.   Breakfast cereal prices are falling.

7.   Cereal prices, meantime, continue to fall as Kellogg Co., General Mills Inc. and Philip Morris Cos. battle for market share, he said.

8.   Consumer advocates have long criticized the industry as gouging the public with high cereal prices, and cited a slowing of consumption to illustrate the point.

9.   Consumers had become upset about cereal prices and had begun calling for action.

10.   Commissioner Roscoe Starek also voted against the settlement, questioning whether there is enough evidence that the acquisition would let General Mills raise brand-name cereal prices.