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The wiser of the wise guys have gone legit; the dumber ones (such as John Gotti Jr.) preside over sagging profits and faltering allegiances.
Rescue and relief teams from all over--the U.S., western Europe, Russia, and Israel--flocked to western Turkey where domestic efforts were faltering or nonexistent.
The NYT 's lead replays Yeltsin's Friday appeal to Western leaders for $20 billion ($10 million of it from the IMF) to bail out Russia's faltering markets.
While recognizing the wage and spending lifts, the WSJ lead argues that many indeed fear an impending recession: "Signs are emerging that some important engines of recent growth--particularly profits and business investment--are faltering."
Cars stalled, the light gone hazy under leafless sycamores-- nature's diction, as casual as you asking for a last glass of water, whispers in my ear words cotton-mouthed and sere as sloughing bark littering the roadway, rush hour traffic halting, faltering like my hand the day I signed away your flesh to the crematory fire ...