1.   Federal subsidies are still given to tobacco farmers.

2.   The power generators have argued that the price rises came about when subsidies were given to large firms, which added to the domestic power bills.

3.   A bill passed last month by the House would give subsidies to insurance companies that provide drug benefits to people on Medicare.

4.   Democrats want to give subsidies to employers to continue coverage for now-unemployed workers under an exisitng plan called COBRA.

5.   Giving child-care subsidies to former welfare mothers nearly doubles the likelihood that they will still be working two years later.

6.   His prescription drug bill, in fact, would deliver benefits to the elderly by giving subsidies to private health plans that offered coverage.

7.   It would also give subsidies to families adopting children who are older, disabled or otherwise hard to place.

8.   Poor families can be given subsidies to send children to school and small amounts of credit to start small businesses and earn a decent living.

9.   Rekart said the United Nations and other international agencies gave no subsidies to those too poor to come to Vancouver on their own.

10.   That leads to artificially low world prices, which in turn undercut grain produced by farmers in countries that do not give subsidies.