61.   All of which has left minorities and liberals reeling and scrambling to devise an effective strategy to drain the rising tide of primarily white-based anger.

62.   Alas, for the buyer with a budget, the rising tide lifts all boats.

63.   But a string of dot-com failures and a rising tide of bad loans have made lenders roll up the welcome mat.

64.   Bulldozers were trying to build a wall of sand to protect the boardwalk from the rising tide.

65.   But a rising tide of evidence over the last decade has turned what at first seemed like a crazy concept into a mainstream theory.

66.   But if they are convicted, the women will become another statistic in a rising tide of employee theft in retail stores.

67.   But in keeping with the rising tide of anti-immigration sentiment, increasingly the Clinton administration is showing the door to illegal immigrants.

68.   But in America, the rising tide of revelations seems only to buoy the president high in the polls.

69.   But pressed by the rising tide of Taiwanese nationalism and the opposition party, the government has started seeking U.N. admission.

70.   But no one can predict whether the rising GOP tide will produce a ripple, a wave or a tsunami that flattens Democrats from coast to coast.