In early 1989, like now, inflation fears pushed bond yields through 9 percent.

I find that putting myself in other people's shoes gets me through 99 percent of any problems.

Taxes cover tuition through graduate school, almost all health care and 85 to 90 percent of child day care.

In the same period, the city had a net gain through international migration of 460,000 people, or more than 6 percent of the city's population.

"We have to go back up through 9 percent," where rates stood last week, he said, "and see if that's the level," the peak.

When someone comes through 100 percent like that, you feel as if you want to shout about it.

The increase has continued this year: the department tried 104 officers through October and convicted 76 percent, the statistics show.

"We're through almost ninety percent of them," Price said, "and that appears to be the case."

That figures out to about one in 2,270 members who have met and married through the site, or 0.045 percent.

Mr. Rose said that about 80 percent of such support was provided through phone calls and 20 percent on line.