Bread is plentiful in Moscow, but anxious customers still form long lines outside stores.

The negative response cost him another shilling and several elbows in his ribs from customers anxious to buy a brick of tea for tuppence.

By the end of the week, anxious customers had withdrawn the equivalent of $5 billion from Chohung Bank.

But despite this abundance, anxious customers form a line half a block long outside the shop.

The company was taken over by New Jersey after the real estate market tumbled and anxious customers began to withdraw their cash.

And fuel oil companies scurried to keep up with unexpected requests from anxious customers who had sufficient fuel but wanted their tanks topped off.

He said 30 anxious customers had stopped by, wanting him to bring their cars to the main floor, apparently fearing another blackout.

Like clockwork, anxious customers request that their batteries or straps be replaced on the spot.

No shill would stand in the way of a customer anxious to drop a few tokens in the slot.

But they said they expected anxious customers to keep them busy.