11.  Asian stocks dropped this week as rocketing interest rates raised borrowing costs and hurt profits.

12.  At the meeting Thursday, several lawmakers whose districts lie along or near the border promised to push Congress to raise spending on district courts in the Southwest.

13.  Both can raise IQ scores, but only because they raise true intelligence by, say, giving the Legomaniac a better grasp of spatial relationships.

14.  A world champion suffers a blood clot on the brain in a nationally-televised fight in England and voices are raised demanding the sport be banned.

15.  According to Finance Minister Jean Arthuis, the state will raise its spending by less than two percent -- well below the rate of inflation.

16.  But it turns out that the questions raised by Tice are not the only ones that can be raised regarding Tyco.

17.  But many at this conference said they were prepared to jump through the hoops because the financing amounted to more than they could raise passing the plate.

18.  But it could also give them more freedom to innovate, he said, and might make it easier for them to raise financing.

19.  But other experts said the federal government should require stricter laws the way that it required the states to raise drinking ages.

20.  By last year, Pataki was raising spending on popular programs, and he was widely seen as unassailable.