1. Kenya used subsidies to encourage exports. 2. Argentine exporters accused the Brazilian government of using subsidies to give its farmers and manufacturers an unfair trading advantage within the Mercosur free trade area. 3. Current recipients of Medicaid, the government health program for poor people, would be allowed to join the new Medicare program or use subsidies to purchase private insurance. 4. In their place, he proposed a system of vouchers that would let poor people use federal subsidies to help pay their rent. 5. It is an initiative called ClickStart, a nonprofit organization that would use federal subsidies to help connect millions of low-income Americans to the Internet. 6. Shifting course on the controversial subject of school vouchers, presidential candidate Bill Bradley said Friday that he would not support using government subsidies for private schools. 7. Some rival airlines said they wanted the commission to block the aid amid complaints that Air France used subsidies to cut fares on European routes. 8. The attempt to use subsidies, rather than a mandate, to cover the uninsured might well backfire. 9. The accord, reached in April, ended years of dispute over whether Canada used unfair subsidies to back its timber industry. 10. The court said there was no way of guaranteeing that the public subsidy would be used for nonreligious purposes. |