51.   All three major market gauges rose amid hopes the economy is slowing enough to permit the Fed to lower rates.

52.   Brooklyn Union has argued that a merger with LILCO could lower rates with minimal government involvement or cost.

53.   BRAZILIAN stocks plummeted anew, led by telecommunications stocks, on speculation that market leader Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA might lower phone rates this year, thereby cutting into earnings.

54.   Bush likes to defend his proposals as lowering tax rates for everyone, not just those who seize the narrowly crafted incentives offered by Gore.

55.   But advocacy groups argue that the expanded coverage could actually save money because the use of more efficient medical technology would lower rates of multiple and premature births.

56.   But if the Fed does not lower short-term rates soon, the bond market may start to fret that inflation will return with a vengeance.

57.   But most observers say there is little likelihood the Fed will lower short-term rates at its next meeting.

58.   But officials at the Marshals Service eventually recognized they had made a mistake and renegotiated the contract last April, slightly lowering the rate they paid for prisoners.

59.   But there are no data yet to show that widespread use of serotonin-enhancing drugs is significantly lowering suicide rates.

60.   But the Democrats in the Assembly have vowed to block this approach, proposing instead to lower rates for companies with good safety records, among other changes.