It is rare to find any single market that has consistently performed among the top global stock markets.

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But wealth circulates with inconceivable rapidity, and experience shows that it is rare to find two succeeding generations in the full enjoyment of it.

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It is rare to find infected animals in the United States.

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It is rare to find one who changes his approach.

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Deliberately sinking a dead whale is done for scientific studies because it is so rare to find the carcasses at sea.

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Furthermore, in America today it is exceedingly rare to find the kind of insular ivory-tower mentality that makes professors in Europe so loth to interact with and keeps them isolated from the realities of their fellow citizens.

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Instead, what I would point out to her is that, although the US market may seem relatively strong today, it is in fact rare to find any single market that has consistently performed among the top global stock markets.

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Indeed, it is becoming not-so-rare for malefactors-turned-government-witnesses to find themselves handsomely rewarded , not only with non-prosecution agreements, but also with some material benefits.

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"Being hand-written would have made it rare and valuable even when it was new, so it is not a surprise to find it shows signs of marks from the copper clasps which held its chains when it was in the nun's library, " he said.

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To be sure, it is only in rare cases, when tax rates get very high, that researchers find that high tax rates lose revenue.

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