11.   The price rises wiped out the need for farm subsidies.

12.   Speaking to BBC radio, Lawrence Eagleburger said the US had done what it could for an agreement on farm subsidies, which had derailed the talks.

13.   Also endangered, Democrats said, are new farm subsidies and an extension of tax breaks that expire next year.

14.   And both Gingrich and the new Senate majority leader, Robert Dole, have said in recent days that farm subsidies are safe as well.

15.   And unlike other federal entitlement programs, farm subsidies have no requirements of income, assets or debts.

16.   And while the battles over welfare, taxes and term limits have received lots of press, the battle over farm subsidies and price supports is just heating up.

17.   Armey, however, has suddenly lost his appetite for cutting farm subsidies.

18.   At last, urban consumers will have the clout to push for lower farm subsidies.

19.   At least five members of Congress who sit on the agriculture committees that are writing the new farm policy receive thousands of dollars in farm subsidies each year.

20.   Back in Lorenzo, Fondren views farm subsidies on a much smaller scale.