1.   But in Youngstown, the homicide rate went down.

2.   In ten years, homicide rates tripled and suicide rates quadrupled.

3.   Nisbett and Cohen say they did not include blacks in their study because homicide rates for blacks are unrelated to region.

4.   Officials insist the case is unrelated to the explosion in homicide rates among teenagers.

5.   The homicide rate continued to rise until it was triple even that of the United States.

6.   Although homicide rates in Phoenix have slowed this year, authorities say the violence threatens to siphon off law-enforcement resources from other crime-fighting needs.

7.   Although the reasons are far from clear, homicide rates among young Americans have started to drop.

8.   Around the world, homicide rates did an about-face.

9.   As president, he told parishioners of a black church in Memphis that the high homicide rate among blacks would shame the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

10.   As the annual U.S. homicide rate attests, we suffer from our own invincible cruelty.