But rather than repressuring the Ukrainian pipeline system for exports, Russia's gas monopoly, Gazprom, ordered a single test shipment to see if it would pass through Ukraine to Europe, through a pipeline that was being used to supply the Ukrainian city of Odessa.

I'm afraid you won't understand when I say I've very tiresome things to consider. Botherations, necessities at home. The pinch, the pressure in London.

Patients with histrionic personality disorder are sometimes accused of being attention whores.

Is there a preponderance of female protagonists in commercial fiction, and if so, what does it mean?