1.   In less fertile and inaccessible regions, introducing free Market forces and removing state subsidies brought poverty instead of wealth.

2.   He fears that until state subsidies are removed, Russia will never have a truly free press.

3.   Bucaram backed off earlier this week on new measures to remove state subsidies on basic goods, which was his attempt to cut a burgeoning fiscal deficit.

4.   Bucaram backed out of earlier plans to remove the subsidies last September, for fear of a backlash from poor Ecuadoreans.

5.   Ecuadorean President Abdala Bucaram said the price of cooking gas will more than triple, after his government removed a subsidy that kept down the price.

6.   He has since removed state subsidies on such sensitive items as cooking gas and electricity, as part of efforts to cut the fiscal deficit.

7.   The Telecommunications Act directed the FCC to remove the subsidies that supported pay phone service for the regional Bells.

8.   While the government is removing the subsidies that have kept the price low, dropping world oil prices have protected Kuwaiti motorists from seeing any increase at gas stations.

9.   Past attempts to remove government subsidies had met with popular discontent and, on occasions, violent protests.

10.   China has already committed itself to removing all subsidies directly linked to exports when it joins the WTO, the body which sets rules on international trade.