Building a band of faithful travelers , sandy and jamie move step by step towards wall street , finally storming the bastions of salomon and smith barney .
These illegal bastions of capitalism had sprung up throughout much of the country establishing a semblance of a working economy alongside the nonfunctioning state system and enriching a dangerous new merchant class .
Research on russian consumer patterns by the boston consulting group shows that holiday travel and fashion accessories , two bastions of the luxury lifestyle , are most vulnerable to downturns .
So there is expectation that women will make up a rising proportion of future laureates , just as they are penetrating the bastions of scientific achievement such as the us national academy of sciences .
Other pri bastions also looked wobbly : the party clung onto veracruz , the largest state in contention , by less than 3 % , and held the smaller durango by less than 2 % .
Once on the political fringes , these parties now command significant support in austria , belgium , france , italy , the netherlands , and even ( or especially ) the socialist bastions of scandinavia .