41.   Thirteen years after she ran for vice president, Geraldine Ferraro is still that increasingly rare commodity, a political celebrity.

42.   To start with, computer jocks are a rare commodity.

43.   White leadership, the kind that stands up to racism despite the raging heat of emotion and the icy blasts of election time, is a rare commodity.

44.   And good morale is a rare commodity.

45.   Electricity and telephones are nearly nonexistent and gasoline is a rare commodity.

46.   In many organisations, creativity is treated as a rare commodity, a gift or an in-born talent.

47.   Merriment has been a rare commodity on Broadway in recent years.

48.   These days Ruby Bridges embodies that rare educational commodity known as living history.

49.   When families ask him what they can do for him, he asks for cigarettes, a rare commodity in Bukavu.

50.   It boasts a functioning air-conditioning system, a rare commodity in Afghanistan, and state-of-the art sound and light systems.