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Business is brisk, owing in no small part to the irrepressible spirit of Moscow's "hoboes" -- the term favored by the city's free-market hucksters -- who engage in a frenzy of buying and selling whatever goods they can lay their hands on. It is difficult to know whether these are the entrepreneurs who will eventually help rebuild the nation's economy or the scam artists who will pull it down. Perhaps they are a little of both. In any case, their impact has been undeniable: last year, by one estimate, hoboes moved 3 billion rubles' worth of goods...
...something. We'd win the ball, exploit the space and go out with fast forwards. It's like a fast break in basketball." Ernie Stewart's goal, which put the U.S. up 2-0, was the climax of fleet choreography involving seven intricate passes. Faced with this brisk juggernaut, Colombia turned dyspeptic, seemingly resigned to being humiliated by the U.S. "They deserved the win," wrote a Bogota daily, "as much as we deserved the loss...
...strongest crosscurrents, however, cut across the whole economy. "Americans have to cope with job change on a scale never before seen in this country," says Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. The economy, in fact, has accomplished the weird feat of combining a fairly brisk pace of job creation with a record rate of layoffs. Reich notes that job creation for the past six months has averaged 200,000 a month. But the increase over the past three years is about a third below the pace of earlier recoveries. Much worse, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based outplacement firm, counted...
...brisk, knowing criticism of the current direction of fashion, Duffy deserves to take a long...
...bright, brisk spring afternoon last week, Bill Clinton threw out the first ball at the Cleveland Indians' opening-day game. But his pitch, high and over the plate, was more than the usual springtime rite. The President helped kick off the baseball season in Jacobs Field, a sleek, brand-new, $169 million stadium, a large chunk of which was financed by a 4.5 cents-a-pack local tax on cigarettes. Yet no one, no matter where they are sitting, is permitted to smoke in the open-air stands...