51.   The funds will come from fuel taxes and proceeds from an auction of operating contracts for oil fields by state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA.

52.   The increase, after all, is due to fuel taxes going unspent.

53.   The measures include hiking fuel taxes, increasing social security payments by self-employed workers and ending tax exemptions on some products and services.

54.   The measures include raising fuel taxes, reducing refunds on export taxes and ending value-added-tax exemptions on some products and services.

55.   The protest attracted little of its earlier widespread support and no promise that fuel taxes, the highest in Europe, would be reduced.

56.   The package combines reductions in social spending and subsidies with tax cuts for businesses and an increase in fuel taxes.

57.   The Thai government, in the face of public opposition, earlier this month repealed newly imposed fuel tax increases designed to meet IMF fiscal requirements.

58.   There was more hearty applause when Menem declared by decree that he was cutting their fuel taxes so they could compete better with the neighboring Brazilians.

59.   These accounts, which are supplied by fuel taxes, provide money to build and repair highways, mass-transit systems, waterways and airports.

60.   They also can be affected by government policies such as raising fuel taxes and by supply disruptions such as pipeline breaks.