101.   On the bottom shelf is a plastic piggy bank, its slot gouged into a hole big enough for three searching fingers.

102.   On the Slovak side, store shelves are full of goods.

103.   Some stores are closed or shelves are empty after panic buying that led to shortages in staple foods like milk, cheese, sugar and oil.

104.   Store shelves are bare of fresh vegetables, fruit and sugar.

105.   Stores may not be pretty, but shelves are full.

106.   Store shelves are running bare, although some goods make it to a few shops at three or more times the normal price.

107.   --Telekom shops were constantly running out of popular telephone models while their shelves were full of items like the emergency calling gadget Secury that hardly anyone wanted.

108.   Still, some store employees said business was actually down, and shelves were full in central Moscow.

109.   The pharmacy shelves are bare, patients crowd the waiting room for hours and doctors run frantically from one examination to the next.

110.   The shelf is full of others, waiting to be dusted off, fleshed out, updated and put into action whenever the need arises.