41.  Bond investors and other lenders demand higher interest rates on loans to companies with lower ratings.

42.  Season premieres can wield substantial clout, but Fox is assigning enough power to them to account for lower ratings.

43.  Sex scenes were clipped to land the lower rating, and the original script called for Dunst to prance around nude.

44.  Sassa said NBC's lower ratings in prime time this year are largely due to the loss of "Seinfeld" and NFL broadcasts.

45.  Schools that allowed minority students to slip behind were given lower ratings than schools that kept minority students working up to grade level.

46.  So despite a lower rating, the average number of households watching each games has risen 5 percent to 776,000.

47.  Some shows with lower ratings often are saved while those with a larger audience are canceled.

48.  Standard & Poor's placed two Paul Revere units on its Creditwatch last week, noting that Provident had a slightly lower rating than Paul Revere.

49.  Still, buyers of the new debt are getting obligations with lower ratings than the parent company.

50.  Superstations in Chicago and Atlanta reportedly dropped a request to decrease payments because of lower ratings and TV revenue.