Lower slobbovia

Mr. Gates said that disclosing what subjects the C.I.A. was researching could influence events abroad. “Let's say it was officially confirmed that the C.I.A. had authorized a study of the possibility of financial collapse in Lower Slobbovia,” he said. “One could see how that would make international institutions lending to Lower Slobbovia very nervous.”

“Academies do not win the Davis Cup,” Tom Gorman, the Davis Cup captain, said this summer after Boris Becker relegated the United States to Lower Slobbovia, a full year in the American Zone sector.