Word: plum
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...clever foldaway devices to keep you amused even if you don't spend most of the 20-hour ride in one of the three bars or the dining car. But dinner is the highlight of the trip. As you tuck into your fillet of kangaroo with native pepperleaf and plum sauce, a banquet of scenery is delivered to your window?vistas of sand and spinifex grass, with salt plains for seasoning and a stunning sunset to round...
...resolution passing the 15-member Security Council by more than the nine votes needed are good. Britain's support is assured, and France is moving closer to the U.S. position; Bush's announcement that the U.S. will rejoin the Paris-based U.N. cultural agency unesco, officials say, was a plum aimed at rewarding the French. Russian support for action is also close, U.S. negotiators claim, and China, the last of the veto-wielding permanent members, is probably going to go along with the group consensus. "I think all the members of the council are now seized with the issue," Secretary...
...ministers who - together with their coalition partners, the conservative People's Party of Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel - managed to accomplish a few things. They slashed spending, briefly eliminated the deficit, and wrested control of government-owned enterprises from the old proporz system, which for 50 years had divided plum public-sector jobs between socialist and conservative party loyalists. Haider still pulled some strings from Carinthia, but the low-key Freedom Party Vice Chancellor Susanne Riess-Passer won acceptance as a surprisingly moderate voice in international affairs. Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser, 33, tamed the budget. Their achievements, says Sichrovsky...
...season Avon retains a certain lazy, carefree air. Sweeping front porches serve as social hubs. Traffic grinds to a halt so that ducks can meander across the street. Underemployed policemen ride around on bicycles and hand out "citations" for good behavior, redeemable for free sugar cones at Beach Plum Homemade Ice Cream...
After publishing a dozen romance novels, Evanovich switched to a crime series. "I decided that if I was going to stay with something for a long time, it would have to go back to New Jersey," she says. Not wanting to make her heroine, Stephanie Plum, a private eye or a cop, Evanovich made her a bounty hunter who tracks down suspects who jump bail. "It had such cachet, the Wild West thing," she says. "It was something with a lot of personal freedom to it. Then I had to find out what bounty hunters do." She also...