On the long, continuous downgrades of East Africa dynamic braking is of special value; the traction motors are used as generators and their energy output dissipated in force-ventilated banks of resistors. This facility enables a 700-ton trailing load, for example, to be brought down a 1 in 66 gradient at any selected speed between 14 and 25 m.p.h. without use of the air brakes.

An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.

We are all in the same pot, we are all guilty, or innocent, depending on whether we take the frog's view or the Olympian view.

to reduce a province or a fort