Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

About 250,000 poods of yuft are prepared annually, of which about 150,000 poods are red yuft, manufactured chiefly for foreign markets.

Technically, DOE did not need authority to reprogram the funds as long as the spending didn't span different appropriation line items.

The feeling seemed to come not from without, but from within each body, as though every person had become a vibrating string.