Word: spooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle class, since new energy taxes will hit all families earning more than $30,000. They pointed out that for the next two years, virtually every penny of the deficit reduction will come from tax hikes rather than spending cuts. They warned that raising taxes would dampen the recovery, spook consumers and investors, and ultimately cost jobs by suppressing growth. "I felt good about the proposals," said Dick Johnson, a retired aeronautical engineer in Dallas, "until I heard the Republicans telling me nothing was going to change...
...OMINOUS WARNING FROM THE HIGHEST-RANKING Chinese official yet to speak out against Governor Chris Patten's democratic reforms finally sent Hong Kong's key barometer of confidence, the heretofore spook-proof stock market, plummeting nearly 8%. From London, where Patten coincidentally got a ringing endorsement from his friend Prime Minister John Major, Zhu Rongji, the otherwise reform-minded Vice Premier and likely successor to hard-line Premier Li Peng, said the plans violate the bedrock 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration preserving Hong Kong's capitalist ways after the 1997 hand over. He added darkly, "People ask whether we have...
...BOTTOM LINE: Coppola brings the old spook story alive -- well, undead -- as a luscious, infernal romance...
Listening to Automatic for the People, R.E.M.'s ninth album, you get the sense that the band has grown up a lot in the past decade. Since they released Chronic Town in 1982, R.E.M. has tried many different approaches--from the jangle of Murmur to the spook of Fables of the Reconstruction to the electricity of Document and Green...
Ever since U.S. Intelligence was caught flat-footed when Iraq invaded Kuwait, it has faced renewed criticism for placing too much emphasis on technology and too little on actual spies. As one spook puts it: "You can't tell what's going on in Saddam Hussein's head from satellite surveillance." CIA Director ROBERT GATES is now looking for a few good men and women and has set up a human-intelligence center to coordinate the spook efforts of his agency, the State Department and the military services...