21.   But the breast cancer mortality rate continues to show a racial disparity.

22.   But the disease remains rampant and deadly in many developing nations where infection rates continue at alarming rates and treatment is minimal.

23.   But the water supply will permit this growth rate to continue for no more than a decade, local planners say.

24.   But this perception is likely to change if the current moderate rate of inflation here continues.

25.   Cigarette makers are expected to fight efforts to block foreign sales because tobacco companies are targeting foreign markets as U.S. smoking rates continue to decline.

26.   Corporate tax revenues have gone up, but corporate tax rates continue to be pushed down.

27.   Crime rates continue to fall in the country.

28.   Crime rates continued a long-term pattern of large regional disparities, the report showed.

29.   Despite years of prevention and education efforts, the HIV infection rate continues to rise among this group.

30.   Domestic soybean processing rates continue to be strong, threatening to erode supplies before the fall harvest.