Word: markets
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...shelves in Moscow grocery stores that appears on TV news programs almost every evening. At least some of the food so conspicuously missing in state outlets is on sale but off camera, from private vendors at higher prices a few blocks way. That's what a transition to a market economy is all about...
...fourth time they were going to the polls since March, when East Germany elected its first post-Communist parliament. In Brandenburg some said they were tired of campaigns and elections; others that they felt their votes, amid millions of ballots, counted for nothing. In an open-air market run by unemployed workers, one woman, retaining the old reluctance to give her name, dismissed any worry about absenteeism. Casting an eye backward in time, she said, "Of course they'll vote. It's a secret ballot...
...real concern is the future of our labor force," said Boskin, citing the "tremendous flexibility and dynamism of our labor market" as a chief asset...
After emerging from the subway, the protestersheld another "die-in" in the street in front ofChristy's Market. While a few cars beeped and manywaited, one vehicle drove through the protesterslaying on the ground. No one was hurt...
With the oxygen going out of the U.S. economy and Japanese collectors scared by the descent of their stock index, the fall sales at Sotheby's and Christie's are jolted by a major shake-out in the art market. Top-quality works still command good prices, but the overhyped contemporary field suffers a massacre, with many offerings going unsold. Moreover, the decline casts new doubts on the competitive tactics of the auction houses...