11.   For parents, such grim statistics make the job of picking child care even more overwhelming.

12.   Hispanics know the grim statistics.

13.   Matthew Shepard is just one more grim statistic.

14.   Now, though, the grim statistics are underscoring the many perils of going public too early.

15.   Other surveys offered similar grim statistics.

16.   Such grim statistics are blamed on the fact ovarian cancer is notoriously difficult to diagnose in its earliest, most curable, stages.

17.   The grim statistic underscored the contrast that became clear this week between the rapidly spreading epidemic and the slow pace at which efforts to fight the disease are progressing.

18.   The grim statistics about AIDS also had little effect.

19.   The government produced a welter of grim statistics to back the need for change.

20.   The grim statistic underscored the contrast between the rapidly spreading epidemic and the slow pace at which efforts to fight the disease are progressing.