61.   Bullion is usually bought as a hedge against rising prices.

62.   Bulls charge ahead and buy, so a market with rising prices is a bull market.

63.   But a select group of investors, those most concerned about rising prices, have done extraordinarily well this year.

64.   But as more Americans balk at the rising price of new cars, there is greater pressure on the part of the manufacturers to control costs.

65.   Businesses are running at the kind of flat-out pace that usually rekindles inflation, but there are no signs of rising prices.

66.   But economists played down the possibility that the drop of the dollar today against the German and Japanese currencies would lead to rising prices in the United States.

67.   But in physics as in real estate, rising prices can be most painful for the young community members.

68.   But frightened by rising prices for fuel and food, most villagers cast their ballots for Zyuganov last month, and again Wednesday.

69.   But he cautioned against too much optimism, especially since predictions of rising prices at this time last year never materialized.

70.   But investors who came into the funds on the strength of rising prices shared in little, if any, of the gains.