1.   A bird pecking at food grains could have known without learning what food looks like, or it could have learnt it.

2.   Some economists feel deep disquiet at the use of food grains to produce motor spirit.

3.   Chautala made his decision after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee declined to roll back a rise in the prices of subsidized food grains and fertilizer.

4.   The ration shops where they could buy food grains at less than cost have nothing for sale except paraffin and sugar.

5.   Thousands of trains transport more than four million people every day as well as hundreds of thousands of tons of coal, oil, food grains and steel.

6.   Mr. Attlee told the President that there was a deficit of seven million tons of food grains between available supply and demand.

7.   Preelection surveys and exit polls showed voters were angry with the government mainly over soaring prices of vegetables and food grains.

8.   Russia will have enough food grain this year, though the harvest will be painfully low because of drought and forest fires, Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin said Saturday.

9.   Stepashin, speaking to the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, said there would be sufficient food grain but might suffer shortages of fodder.