11.   His overall ratings go down every time he raises his voice.

12.   If the ratings for the first round go up by so much as half a point, the assumption will be that all their clever scheduling was the reason.

13.   If Clinton is put on trial in the Senate, his ratings will go higher than motherhood.

14.   In this era of runaway big-market payrolls, baseball had better do something, or those Series ratings are going to keep sliding, into single digits.

15.   MSNBC also saw its ratings go higher, and stay higher, as a result of its focus on the White House sex scandal.

16.   Ratings went down for the third year in a row.

17.   Ratings would go into the tank on name alone.

18.   Schlessinger, who has two years left on her contract, said stations in cities like Los Angeles and Washington that kept the faith saw their ratings go up.

19.   The deadline pushed Netanyahu into a populist, defensive posture against overt U.S. pressure and his approval ratings at home went up.

20.   The lower the ratings go, the louder the drumbeat.