If a recession were coming, you would expect long-term interest rates to fall even as short-term ones were rising, which is just what has happened.

So why do the large ones rise to the surface, when it kills off all the polyps that end up out of the water?

"What's likely to happen is that the meanest, toughest ones will rise to the top, at least for a couple of generations," he said.

The best ones rose to this opportunity with enthusiasm and creativity.

The stars she had watched were now far over the mountains and new ones had risen in the east.

If there are a lot of shy birds, the few bold ones will rise to the top.

It would be a few minutes before other bright ones rose to replace them.

Then the fallen ones rose and the standing ones sank.

And it's not at all clear that the best ones are rising to the top.

She had seen countless young ones rise and fall.