Only the Chinese have managed to wangle a special concession and also to build a pipeline.

ECONOMIST: Turkmenistan's plight

Feder says the rules were drawn up in a time when judges and legal scholars didn't think lawyers would file baseless claims just to wangle a settlement.

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He managed to wangle Italy into Europe's single currency.

ECONOMIST: Italy

One reason for his slippage is that the prime minister has spent much of the past few months trying to wangle legislation that would get him out of his many legal difficulties rather than tackling the effects of the recession.

ECONOMIST: Italian politics