101.   The crime rate has dropped as well, though calls to the police have risen disproportionately in the housing projects.

102.   The crime rate has dropped in Nashville.

103.   The fertility rate drops further.

104.   The fact is, however, that violent crime rates are dropping across the country.

105.   The inconvenience and the lack of health-care providers who speak Spanish will cause the immunization rate to drop, she said.

106.   The infection rate has not dropped for three years.

107.   The homicide rate has dropped for five straight years, but politicians, law enforcement officials and criminologists have been divided on the causes of the decline.

108.   The homicide rate has dropped this year, and arrests have increased since the state troopers arrived, the Camden police say.

109.   The housing market has been mixed even as rates drop from its recent highs.

110.   The job-turnover rate has been dropping even as the unemployment rate has plunged.