Gianna Parasini: You've never worked in the corporate world, have you, Commander? You can't bludgeon through bureaucracy. Shepard: I can bludgeon pretty hard.

Thee bist rayther too much a feelosofer, I be afeard, for me.

OPIUM SMOKING LICENSES are issued in connection with the Government Laboratory at Taipeh, where the imported opium is refined and put, in three different qualities, into 1-lb. tins for distribution and sale to licence-holders.

Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.