1.   Dole hammered at the latest statistics, showing that teenage drug use has more than doubled in the last four years.

2.   Sole practitioners are increasingly regarded with suspicion from officials armed with the latest statistics from the Disciplinary Tribunal.

3.   THE latest statistics show that a man retiring in Edinburgh is likely to live four years longer than his counterpart in Glasgow, it was stated yesterday.

4.   And the latest statistics show the situation is worse in Georgia than for the nation as a whole.

5.   At the other extreme, some economists on Wall Street, also in the minority, see in the latest statistics the beginnings of inflationary economic growth.

6.   According to the latest statistics from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japanese banks have been net sellers of Japanese equities for the past eight weeks.

7.   According to the latest statistics, the number of students choosing to work in government has shot back up at Harvard.

8.   But the latest statistics from the National Cancer Institute show that breast-cancer rates are increasing faster among Hispanic women than in other groups.

9.   But the Northwest Freeway HOV lane barely makes up the five minutes lost, according to the latest statistics for the height of morning rush hour.

10.   Economists interpreted this latest statistic as strong evidence that rising interest rates had finally shifted home construction, and the entire economy, into a lower gear.