51.   Consumers already have paid for these plants via the highest electric rates in the nation, he said.

52.   Despite the declining rates, the United States still has by far the highest rate of teen-age births of any industrialized nation.

53.   Earlier this month, the Commerce Department said sales of new U.S. single-family homes soared in November to their highest rate in more than a decade.

54.   Emerging markets such as China may have high potential, but they also tend to have the highest rates of intellectual-property theft in the world.

55.   Employer taxes to cover jobless benefits rose at the beginning of the year to their highest statutory rate.

56.   Estimates of U.S. gasoline demand rose to their highest rate in six months.

57.   For mysterious and complex reasons, African-American men have the highest rate of prostate cancer of any ethnic or racial group anywhere in the world.

58.   Florida had the highest busy rate, with half the callers getting busy signals last year.

59.   For years, Belle Glade has borne the sad distinction of having the highest AIDS infection rate in the country.

60.   Fund companies said January sales levels were running at the highest rates ever.