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  What diabolical ways to sabotage they found! Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, of the People's Commissariat of Railroads ....
• And what accomplished villains these old engineers were!
  What diabolical ways to sabotage they found! Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, of the People's Comissariat of Railroads ....
• A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow.
  The time had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to catching instructions on the wing....
• 113 grams, 10 milliliters ... He's lead, Jim.
• His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was falling outside.
  Yes, cold and therefore difficult to chew..." -- Aleksandr I....
• Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations.
  And I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it....
• I smell a rat. Did you bake it or fry it?
• coefficient of X n. Hackish speech makes heavy use of pseudo-mathematical metaphors.
  Four particularly important ones involve the terms `coefficient', `factor', `index of X', and `quotient'....