Word: spooks
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...rubbing shoulders with some of its most accomplished architects and repackaging President Reagan's missile defense policy. Then again, Reagan national security adviser Robert McFarlane long ago acknowledged that rather than seriously contemplating a viable defense system, his administration's missile defense policy was an elaborate sting operation to spook the Russians. Candidate Bush, however, may limit himself to spooking the electorate...
...Leningrad siege. "Intelligence officers were really glorified," says Stelmakova, "in movies, literature, propaganda." Putin fell for the "romance of intelligence service." Putin says he was so keen to join up that he actually went one day--at age 15--to the local KGB headquarters to volunteer. There, a benevolent spook explained that "we don't take people who come to us on their own initiative." His advice: Go to law school...
...boom has been to raise consumer debt and the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit to alarming levels. These have added to the inflation concerns of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who on Feb. 2 jacked up interest rates another quarter of a percentage point. Further tightening could spook an increasingly jittery stock market, and the pressure for a bigger boost remains strong. Much of America's current wealth could evaporate with stunning speed. Despite big average increases in disposable income, Tyson pointed out, "savings rates are still declining, and no one knows what to do about that in any country...