61.   Its crime rate is dropping.

62.   Its annual growth rate has now dropped to half a percentage point.

63.   Jimmy hardly flinched and his pulse rate never dropped, according to Fleming, who said he was not relaxed and that her efforts might not have worked.

64.   Jones said rates could drop next year when the reduced benchmark kicks in.

65.   Lereah says the housing market will remain healthy even though rates will not drop.

66.   Long-term rates may drop another eighth of a percentage point or so, he suggested.

67.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani rightly can stand at any lectern around the country and boast about how dramatically the crime rate has dropped in New York City.

68.   Mexican shares fell in afternoon trading amid concern that higher U.S. long-term interest rates will make it tougher for domestic rates to drop in coming weeks, traders said.

69.   Milan Bozic, the deputy mayor of Belgrade, says the crime rate here is dropping.

70.   Most clinics limit couples to three to four attempts, since success rates drop off sharply after that point.