11.   An increase in U.S. pork exports would come as meatpackers slow their slaughter rates, reducing the supply of pork bellies, loins and other cuts.

12.   An outright purchase contains no repurchase agreement, so it supports bond prices by reducing the supply of bonds.

13.   An outright purchase contains no repurchase agreement, so it supports bond prices by reducing bond supply.

14.   And one would have thought that the price of commodities like oil would rise because of worries a US attack on Iraq could reduce supply.

15.   Beef prices advanced because meatpackers earlier this week sold out their inventory, reducing supplies available to the market, analysts said.

16.   Besides the political concerns, a Beijing government would be less likely to sell Taiwanese gold on the open market, effectively reducing supplies.

17.   A lack of competition has allowed oil companies to reduce gasoline supplies and cause record price spikes in recent years, congressional investigators conclude in a report released Monday.

18.   A jump in crude imports soothed any lingering concern that a halt in Iraqi oil exports would reduce supply.

19.   A principal reason rent control does not work, the study said, is because it reduces the supply of apartments available.

20.   A lower budget deficit helps reduce borrowing costs by reducing the supply of government debt, thus generally boosting U.S. bond and stock prices.