11.   Now Minges has stopped using sugar.

12.   Powdered sugar is generally used for decorative purposes or in candy and icings.

13.   The improved efficiency could be good news for consumers and manufacturers who use sugar, provided the savings are passed along to them.

14.   The possibilities include mild chile- or curry-based rubs and those using a little sugar, which helps the meat to brown.

15.   Wary of high petroleum prices, the generals asked, why not use sugar, so abundant in Brazil, to produce alcohol for use as an automobile fuel?

16.   With melon, strawberry, peach, nectarine and plum, she uses straight sugar in her sorbets, believing that sugar syrup dilutes the fruit flavor too much.

17.   And the European Union has said a ban on sales to the United States of products using Cuban sugar violated the GATT accord.

18.   CDP now uses sugars from corn to make its new plastic because it is abundant and inexpensive.

19.   Halfmann, who farms near Stephen, Minn., said sugar growers have asked Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to consider using surplus sugar in ethanol production.

20.   He said small companies which use sugar as the main ingredient in their products are hoarding the essential food item.