1.   At the same time, growth in government spending on farm research has slowed as fears of widespread hunger have abated.

2.   A corn blight has destroyed much of the crop supporting the farmers for the last two years, causing widespread hunger, Hart said.

3.   AIDS has also created other public health problems that require vast resources, like widespread hunger among the rural poor.

4.   Factional fighting derailed the economy and led to widespread hunger.

5.   In March, he had toured the poorest areas of Appalachian Ohio and was disturbed by the widespread hunger he encountered.

6.   In the remote eastern province of Irian Jaya, the drought has brought widespread hunger, an epidemic of diarrhea from filthy water, and hundreds of deaths.

7.   The Bush adminstration said on Thursday that widespread hunger had been averted in Afghanistan, but officials from relief agencies disagreed.

8.   The change, forced on the government by a catastrophic economic crisis, has allowed Cubans to survive and has eliminated the specter of widespread hunger.

9.   Their evacuation raised the prospect of a widespread hunger that would unleash more Afghan refugees.

10.   While no one doubts that there is widespread hunger and malnutrition, the question remains whether there is massive starvation as well.