21.   Government statistics show hiring continues to outstrip firing.

22.   However, a Federal Reserve study released last month showed the U.S. may be more productive than government statistics show.

23.   However, the state and national economies are in better shape than the statistics show, analysts said.

24.   However, investors win only about half the time in arbitration and typically recover just a portion of their losses when they do prevail, statistics show.

25.   In terms of violent crime, routes traversing Wilshire Boulevard, Vermont Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard are the most risky, statistics show.

26.   In that case, he said, AltaVista is half the size of Yahoo, not one-fourth, as U.S. market statistics show.

27.   Minivans have as much cargo room behind the second row of seats as all but the largest sport utility vehicles, industry statistics show.

28.   More Americans now die in crashes involving a car and a light truck than in crashes involving two cars, federal accident statistics show.

29.   Most of those laid off, the statistics show, find new jobs.

30.   Only non-Mexican Hispanic high school seniors from California filed fewer applications last year, the state statistics show.