21.   Under the House bill, the government would pay subsidies to insurance companies to encourage them to provide drug coverage for the elderly.

22.   Under the proposal, Medicare would pay subsidies to private entities to offer insurance covering the costs of prescription drugs.

23.   Under the Republican bill, the government would pay subsidies to insurance companies to induce them to offer insurance covering drug costs.

24.   Under that bill, written by House Republicans, the government would have paid subsidies to insurance companies to encourage them to offer drug coverage.

25.   Under the bill, the government would pay subsidies to insurers that offered policies covering prescription drugs.

26.   When thrifts stop concentrating in mortgage lending or convert their charters, the past subsidy must be paid in taxes.

27.   At a parliamentary hearing in Moscow on Wednesday, Primorye regional Gov. Yevgeny Nazdratenko said the federal government had failed to pay subsidies to the region.

28.   Cabinet spokesman Antonio Vitorino said the subsidies would be paid only to those employers who can prove the jobs they are offering are newly created posts.

29.   China insists that it should be treated as a developing country in terms of its agricultural industry, thus allowing it to pay higher subsidies to farmers.

30.   China had insisted on the right to pay subsidies to its farmers at a level far above what it can afford.