1.   He picked up one of the figures and took it up to the counter, where a bored clerk was daydreaming beneath a horrendously ill-fitting toupee.

2.   A couple of bored sales clerks, shifting from foot to foot in front of a jewelry counter, echoed her comments.

3.   Nearby, a Canadian couple wandered past bored clerks at the Plaza Caracol Mall.

4.   Nobody was rushing to change rubles at foreign exchange points and bored clerks said business was normal.