1.   Worth cut expenditures by sending people who were on government rations home and discharging civilians on the army payroll.

2.   Originally, these items were expected to supplement government rations.

3.   Using state government rations, a small school in Basigochi served a daily meal of tortillas and noodle soup to children with dusty, wind-chapped faces.

4.   Cubans make ends meet with government rations of everything from rice to soap.

5.   Downhill, evacuees from Long Ground village have lived with cots, blankets strung up for walls and government rations for more than a year.

6.   Government rations allow for one ounce of sugar a day per person, but cooperatives in Khartoum have failed to provide sugar quotas for the past two weeks.

7.   Inside, the hotel worker shows her government rations.

8.   Many residents complain they cannot afford to supplement government rations of meat, eggs, detergent, cooking oil and other basics at dollar-only stores.

9.   Many turn to prostitution out of desperation and to get the precious U.S. dollars Cubans need to supplement their meager government rations.

10.   Most survive on government rations.