1.   Efforts to improve matters by raising prices and reducing subsidies led to open resistance and had to be rescinded.

2.   Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices May double or triple overnight.

3.   France launched a bitter attack on EU proposals to reduce farm subsidies.

4.   If the Europeans did not reduce subsidies, a trade war would ensue.

5.   In July the Secretary of Agriculture, Clayton Yeutter, urged the EC and Japan to reduce agricultural subsidies.

6.   Agreeing to reduce total subsidies, said the men from the EEC, has nothing to do with subsidies on individual crops.

7.   Although ministers have suspended moves to reduce subsidies until May, many dentists in the North-East say they still believe a reduction is on the cards.

8.   As chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, he has called for revamping and reducing crop subsidies paid to farmers by the U.S. government.

9.   At the same time, many workers face rising rents as the government tries to reduce housing subsidies and create a commercial housing market.

10.   But at the same time, European officials did little to reduce their subsidies in the six years since the passage of the Freedom to Farm bill.