1.   Basic goods would be tax-exempt, to protect low-income consumers.

2.   People were standing in lines to buy basic goods such as bread, cheese, and milk.

3.   The government also subsidizes basic goods, including sugar, petroleum and wheat.

4.   As Asia bought less oil, steel and other basic goods, their prices fell to punishing levels, forcing cutbacks.

5.   As demand grows and supplies dwindle, makers of paper, chemicals and other basic goods can often raise theis.

6.   As demand grows and supplies dwindle, makers of paper, chemicals and other basic goods can often raise their prices.

7.   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.

8.   Bucaram has come under fire for his controversial free-market reforms, which have caused prices of basic goods to soar.

9.   But human rights and advocates for the ethnic Chinese say that the expected elimination next month of government subsidies on basic goods may rekindle the rioting.