The researchers say the maternal death rate has been falling almost one and a half percent a year since nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The government says the United States economy shrank at an annual rate of one percent in April,May and June.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The completion rate is lower than for almost any other wealthy country, and worst for poor and minority students.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

New York had the lowest rate, at seventy-nine percent of the adults observed at Grand Central Station and Penn Station.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

For example,for men in Swaziland, the difference between the best rate and the worst rate is nine times higher.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Wish them luck. Americans age twenty to twenty-four faced an unemployment rate in May of fourteen and seven-tenths percent.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

As a result,the report says, the rate of plant and animal species disappearing is continuing faster than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The report said the rate of pneumonia in adults after surgery decreased more than eleven and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

For example, the rate of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and Korea is now 3 times what it was 40 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

This can be especially appealing considering the present high unemployment rate and the rising costs of attending college.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

The researchers said tPA improved the chances of a successful result by thirty-one percent and produced no change in the death rate.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The combined rate in the United States and Canada is the second highest in the world.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Officials say the rate has tripled in teenagers and doubled in younger children since nineteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.06.07