Word: set
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this has bubbled cheerfully in the two novels that followed Berlin Game in Deighton's first Samson trilogy, Mexico Set and London Match, and then in Spy Hook, the beginning of a second trilogy, which has Samson under suspicion and on the run from his own colleagues. The current Spy Line sags just a bit, but it will lead, readers are assured, to resolution in a promised final thriller, Spy Sinker. Will Fiona and Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite...
Gorbachev's mounting troubles have had an ambiguous effect on the thinking of the Bush Administration. The set of questions that drives U.S. policy has gone from "Is Gorbachev for real? And is he good for us?" to "Can he make it? And can we help him?" There is far more inclination in Washington today than even a few months ago to accept the best-case interpretation of what Gorbachev wants, what he represents, and what the U.S.S.R. would look like if he were to succeed in his program. At the same time, however, there is also more objective reason...
...they managed to elude the government troops, no one seemed to know. But two days later, they re-emerged from the gullies and ravines that border the city's exclusive Escalon district and took control of several blocks of the neighborhood, which is filled with luxurious ranch-style homes set off by manicured lawns. As the government sent in its helicopters and light tanks, it became clear that the rebels had switched tactics and were showing the rich that the war could come to their elegant front doors. Some demonstrated their support for the government troops by sending servants...
EAST-WEST: Yet another regime topples in Eastern Europe, helping set the agenda of the Malta summit...
...Phase out arbitrary prices. As long as bureaucrats set prices, the economy will experience severe distortions. Nothing short of true free-market prices will produce the efficiency and the supply response needed to stabilize the economy...