31.   A rising jobless rate erodes tax revenue and boosts welfare spending.

32.   A rising jobless rate erodes tax revenue and leads to higher government spending.

33.   A. We have a big problem with nutrition right now, as evidenced by rising rates of obesity and diabetes.

34.   After years of rising rates, mixed with a sluggish response to customer demands, that seems highly unlikely.

35.   Brazilian shares, in particular, shook off the baleful effects of rising U.S. rates then, and some investors reckon that the same thing could recur.

36.   But anxiety about rising rates eased last week after the release of reassuring news about inflation and a comparatively straightforward talk by Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan.

37.   But even some of the most typically pessimistic critics of the California experience find hope in the prospect of diversity and rising rates of intermarriage.

38.   But he added that the effect of rising rates was hard to ascertain.

39.   But lately, in Taiwan at least, rising rates of robbery, assault and murder have trickled into society along with the Italian fashions and Japanese department stores.

40.   But rising rates can mean profit opportunities, too.