Word: oked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of Christian fiction's bread and butter is spread by women. Janette Oke, often called the grandmother of the field, began writing her simple, God-fearing narratives--Ariana has many sisters--in 1979 and is still going strong (more than 13 million sales of 33 adult books...
...urgency on the part of many Americans to find reading materials that don't offer a moral conflict, that don't engage in gratuitous violence, sex and questionable language," says Phyllis Tickle, religion editor of Publishers Weekly. The tribulations of pretty Ariana, the chaste, Bible-memorizing heroine of Janette Oke's A Gown of Spanish Lace (Bethany House; 251 pages; $14.99), have enticed 238,000 hardback-book buyers so far--more than the latest novels by Jackie Collins, John Irving or James Michener. Such outsize commercial success does not register on most newspapers' best-seller lists because religious bookstores...
...Beers cope? "As long as you have cartels, there will be cheating, whether it is diamonds or oil," says Steve Oke, an analyst with the British brokerage house Smith New Court. "The question is whether they can contain the cheating." Although industry analysts believe De Beers will weather the crisis because it has deep pockets and rich affiliates, investors are not convinced. When the company abruptly announced the likelihood of a 25% dividend cut in August, its stock fell nearly 15% and triggered a minicrash on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange...
...elections will see the wisdom of stanching the illegal trade. The main cause for concern remains Russia, because its huge diamond production coincides with deteriorating economic conditions. Russian production in 1991 was an estimated 13 million carats, compared with Angola's 1.5 million. "Angola is like a wasp," says Oke, "but Russia is like a bear stomping around...