>>>A major research institution (SRI) has recently announced the discoveryof>>the heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The new element hasbeen>>tentatively named "Governmentium". >> >>Governmentium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons,and > >>11 assistant deputy neutrons...
Ahem!
As everyone should know, it's not an assistant deputy neutron, it's a deputy assistant neutron. One reason that I will always buy all of Paula Volsky's books in hardback is that in one of them the hero was a Deputy Assistant Secretary.
J. Bradford DeLong
Ci-Devant Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
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