11. The law was passed when prices for oil and natural gas were at all-time highs and it was supposed to provide consumers relief from soaring electric rates. 12. The least promising antidote to soaring rates is price controls. 13. The results are soaring insurance rates, mass evacuations and damages to the environment and wildlife. 14. The soaring overnight rate already caused benchmark borrowing rates to rise. 15. The World Health Organization has reported soaring rates of tuberculosis because of drought. 16. Think only of the fact that countless studies have shown that the driving force behind the soaring rate of incarceration is nonviolent drug offenders. 17. To be sure, some investors say forecasts for soaring rates are overblown. 18. Abuse by older soldiers and officers is widespread and severe in the Russian army and has contributed to soaring rates of desertion. 19. All these possibilities exist now, largely obscured by the soaring rate of productivity. 20. But death penalty advocates blame the moratorium for a soaring rate of violent crime. |