His second collection of short stories, "The Empty Family", which was published late last year in Britain and comes out this month in America, is rich with tender surprises.

You need not be afraid of harming him: though I hate him as much as ever, he did me a good turn a short time since, that will make my conscience tender of breaking his neck.

In this paper some research work is done to set up a tender mathematic model of interrupted load (IL, for short) in the secondary reserve market.