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

42.   But the number of cars clogging its avenues and boulevards has increased at a conspicuously alarming rate.

43.   But they cautioned that social conditions were not improving as rapidly as the economy and that reports of child abuse were rising at an alarming rate.

44.   Captain Keith Tkachuk, after going without a goal in seven straight games, has been cashing in at an alarming rate lately.

45.   China is in the midst of what some experts call an environmental crisis, with major water sources and air quality being degraded at alarming rates.

46.   Companies are also toppling at an alarming rate.

47.   Cooper says the subculture of hate on the internet is growing at an alarming rate.

48.   Deaths caused by air bag deployment continue to rise at an alarming rate.

49.   Declines in tax receipts, consumer sales and manufacturing have quickened at alarming rates over the last two months.

50.   Even without the plague, habitat is being lost at an alarming rate to development and prairie-dog eradication programs.