21.   Meeting with Jewish leaders at Temple Beth El, McCollum said hate crimes have become an increasingly serious problem.

22.   Supporters of the program counter that it prevents teen-agers who have committed petty crimes from becoming repeat offenders whose crimes may become more severe.

23.   That sets up a cycle in which repeat crime becomes more rather than less likely.

24.   There are several suspects, and other crimes become part of the picture.

25.   As gun crime becomes more common in Japan, police nationwide will soon replace their domestic revolvers with more efficient U.S.-made weapons, officials said Friday.

26.   As a result of those World War II courts, crimes against humanity became a violation of international law, the primary charge against Tadic.

27.   Bullying and other crimes have become such a problem in French schools that a group of teen-agers wrote their own how-to manual on coping with school crime.

28.   Crime has become a top issue among candidates in the spring presidential election.

29.   Crime has become one of the main issues in this country four years after free elections ended the apartheid system.

30.   Crime has become a major problem in post-Soviet Russia, with official corruption, organized crime, murders and violent robberies a pervasive part of life.