1.   Distribution of food assistance by local relief organizations was reportedly under way in mid-January, although distribution was still facing difficulties at the end of the month.

2.   And they want to deny food assistance to non-citizen residents.

3.   Both are irritated that North Korea seemed ungrateful for food assistance sent last year, and said that they would not give further aid.

4.   A U.N. appeal for more food assistance to Chechen refugees was sent out in June, he said.

5.   Abandoning the cult of self-reliance that has defined Communist North Korea since its creation, the regime asked the world for emergency food assistance.

6.   About three-fourths of the agriculture money is earmarked for food assistance, such as food stamps, school lunch and other feeding programs.

7.   Bush, however, suggested that Texans who need food assistance are already receiving it.

8.   But at the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee, officials are troubled by the increased requests for food assistance.

9.   But it is not just people living in the shadows of the high-tech boom who need food assistance in Central Texas.

10.   But to qualify for this option, states would have to dispense food assistance with plastic cards like those used in automated teller machines at banks.