1.   As a state senator in Albany, Linda Winikow was a gadfly who hounded power companies relentlessly about soaring electric rates and recurrent power failures.

2.   A generation later the toll began to surface in the form of soaring rates of lung cancer.

3.   A new government-subsidized AIDS clinic in the village of Wenlou in Henan province opened this year after soaring HIV rates there attracted national and international attention.

4.   After reeling off statistics about the soaring rate of illegitimate births, he suggested that parental responsibility should be enforced.

5.   Cohabitation is also the driving force behind the soaring rate of children being born out of wedlock.

6.   Faced with the soaring rate of teen-age pregnancy, some of us urged President Clinton to speak out about it.

7.   For many observers, the soaring rate of multiple births is the clearest sign that regulation is needed.

8.   It was also characterized as a possible prelude to more restrictions because of the soaring rates and concerns about inadequate supplies.

9.   Soaring electric rates have left Lopez unable to afford the electricity to pump his well.

10.   The Fed had shifted its emphasis from targeting interest rates to controlling money supply growth, and soaring rates virtually assured disaster.