1.   A growing reputation and the rising prosperity of Saratoga Springs kept it full even after the late-summer racing season.

2.   But cordiality between the great powers and rising global prosperity is neither natural nor self-regulating.

3.   Millions of rural Chinese now flock to cities to work on construction sites and other projects, a visible sign of rising prosperity.

4.   Rather than counting on rising prosperity, Americans are betting that by working ever harder, they may manage to cling to leadership in the world economy.

5.   So far, only rough estimates have been made of how many people have left the food stamp program for reasons other than rising prosperity or stricter rules.

6.   Social problems would be swept away on a tide of rising prosperity.

7.   The company said it will focus on China and India, where rising prosperity is creating a middle class that now has money to invest.

8.   Unlike the experience of other industrialized nations, rising prosperity does not seem to be reversing the gender imbalance in Asia.

9.   Whenever and wherever a society is able to improve its living standards, history shows that its birth rate usually declines in tandem with rising prosperity.

10.   Rising prosperity has protected some of the old regimes for a while, but unless Asians are fundamentally different, the same logic ought to apply in the end.