1.   As crime rates plummeted, New Yorkers tended to overlook the complaints about brutality and other forms of police misconduct.

2.   As summer temperatures soar, rates plummet, and bargains abound.

3.   AIDS mortality rates plummeted.

4.   Economists say they expect to see widespread unemployment, bankruptcies and possible social unrest this year as growth rates plummet and governments institute austerity measures.

5.   Graduation rates plummeted, from more than three-quarters of entering students at City College to barely half that.

6.   In Brazil, the AIDS infection rate has plummeted.

7.   Instead rates have plummeted.

8.   Literacy rates soared and infant mortality rates plummeted.

9.   No one is certain why crime rates have plummeted in the United States over the last decade.

10.   Nonetheless, the December data showed that the unemployment rate plummeted across the rest of the state and in New Jersey.