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...silhouette that is as short on short skirts as it is on the spiky bracelets, studded handbags and other hard-edged accessories that were hot five minutes ago. Clotheshorses can get in touch with their inner sportswomen in sleek, graceful wools and leathers eminently practical for a brisk pony ride down Fifth Avenue or a fox hunt in the backyard...
Entertaining the audience with his dry wit, the star of “The Anniversary Party” kept the show moving at a characteristically brisk pace, chastising winners whose speeches exceeded the five word limit...
...market is ready. When Tongdaeng's crickets are big enough to eat, he gathers them up and delivers them to "bug king" Tongchart. With business still brisk, there is always room for more in his malodorous freezer. And Tongchart is already dreaming up new ventures, like canning bugs and exporting them to new markets. Maybe even to Europe or America. Maybe. Or maybe that is better left as food for thought...
...your child's learning style and resolve conflicts? What kinds of foods help children concentrate - and keep them from bouncing off the walls? Unsurprisingly, the "Designing a College Preparatory High School Program" was bursting at the seams with parents. They probably made a beeline there from the vendor doing brisk business selling Princeton Review and Kaplan SAT ?prep software...
...business is brisk. Attendance at fixed-site amusement parks has been rising steadily from 253 million in 1990 to 317 million in 2000; despite some reported economic slowdown-related softness at long-distance attractions like Disneyworld, the average park does its business with folks who travel less than 150 miles to get there, and is doing just fine...