21.   Hotel vacancy rates have soared and many restaurants are starving for customers.

22.   I can tell you now that crime rates will soar, divorce rates will skyrocket, dysfunctional families will become the norm.

23.   If it were, they say, the infection rates would soar again.

24.   In Washington, for example, men lost thousands of logging jobs in communities where unemployment rates subsequently soared.

25.   It is not yet clear why rates of infectious disease have soared so uncontrollably here in the last two years.

26.   Last July rates soared when Greenspan suggested the economy was strong, only to plunge by late August.

27.   Literacy rates soared and infant mortality rates plummeted.

28.   Last week, though, money rates soared as the Fed squelched that notion.

29.   Lockheed will get plenty of attention from investors, because offerings from higher-rated firms have slowed as borrowing rates have soared.

30.   Money market rates soared last month as the central bank tried to defend the ringgit from speculative attacks.