Word: steeled
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...Rove Prison in Honiara (pop. 20,000), capital of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, were busy at their usual tasks, which include fashioning water jugs out of beer bottles for sale in local markets. To the inmates' astonishment, two senior prison officers suddenly opened the prison's steel and barbed-wire gates and, along with the 40 guards on duty, simply walked away. The two officers and other members of the staff had complained that their authority was being undermined by prisoners' complaints and a successful court action for assault brought by one of the inmates. Within minutes...
SECRETS by Danielle Steel Delacorte; 336 pages...
...continuing saga of How the Book World Turns, Danielle Steel is queen of the immaculately coiffed romance. With 19 published novels (more than 55 million copies in print), she knows better than most that the majority of women readers want stories of endless love and eternal youth. Lately a touch of career and financial independence is not out of place. The three soap-opera actresses in Secrets manage to be both busy professionals and powerful love goddesses. The most impressive of the trio converts a homosexual into her lover and father of her child. The plot deals with how these...
...nomadic cowpuncher. His rambling philosophy: "There are only two good ranches--the one you've left and the one you're goin' to." Though he's settled with his wife Joni in a corner of Arizona, his cowboy blood still runs thick. With great pride, he pulls his battered steel spurs from the tack-room wall and brushes away the dirt. As he points out the silver-inlaid design and the gold initials R.L.K., he smiles at all the times he's worn them with a swagger. He hangs them on the wall with a jangle, his eyes passing again...
SOUTH KOREA. From January through September, South Korea's exports were down 1.3% from the same period a year ago. Some of the most important industries were hardest hit: steel exports fell 8.4%, and electronics shipments were off 7.2%. The export decline helped slice South Korea's growth rate from 7.5% in 1984 to about 4.8% this year...