Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Ponto's death, virtually every company has strengthened its security, hired additional guards and installed monitoring cameras. Agencies providing bodyguards for hire, and other private security services, are doing brisk business. Complained one official: "I can't drink a beer without security men. I can't go to the toilet without security men. My family life is ruined. And I can't have a relationship with another woman without security men." A Bavarian tycoon grumbled that the elaborate alarm system hastily installed in his house is forever going off, "sending the two resident guards running...
...area three years ago for X-rated movies, porn shops and other facets of the skin trade-in hopes of being able to contain them. But over the past year, violence has followed the vice: a Harvard football player was fatally stabbed, an exotic dancer was strangled, and a brisk trade in guns sprang up. Looking for ways to curb the rough stuff without closing the zone down, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) has devised a strategy based on a reversal of Gresham's law: a theory that good will drive out bad. The planners have announced...
...some of this success rubs off. Already a dozen local performers have signed recording contracts, and the migration of musicians into Austin continues. It all seems a long way from Luckenbach. Or at least the old Luckenbach. These days the town is a thriving weekend tourist spot, which does brisk business in T shirts and bumper stickers. Cardboard NO PARKING signs lean against the trees; nothing is nailed down because the nails, like the signs, have been taken by tourists. Each week a couple of weddings are performed under the big cypress tree down by the creek-if the bride...
...reliable barometer of Washington's relations with Peking has been the visa window at the U.S. consulate in Taipei. When American diplomatic activity with the mainland Chinese steps up, so do applications from Taiwanese for U.S. residency permits. Right now business is brisk...
Analysts seeking to explain the market's jitters could point to some cloudy economic news. The index of leading indicators, a widely watched barometer of future trends in the economy, dipped down slightly in June, casting some doubt on the durability of the present brisk expansion. Investors have also been puzzled by the slow progress of the Carter tax and energy programs in Congress; they have been concerned about the growing U.S. trade deficit and fretful that a big increase in the money sup ply in recent weeks might prompt the Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit and thus...