1.   Their banks are saddled with untold billions of dollars in bad debt and are caught in a wrenching shift from a planned economy to one driven by market forces.

2.   Yet within these large blocks of music there were wrenching shifts of tempo and mood.

3.   Millions of poor Russians are struggling to live as the country goes through the wrenching shift from communism to a free-market economy.

4.   Similar scenes played out in other major cities as the country made the wrenching shift from a fixed to a free-floating currency.