Word: spooks
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...didn't have nostalgia, but I went through some of the trauma that the spooks had definitely been through. Was there nothing there? Maybe it was all a waste of life. Maybe I should have just been running a boy's club. I had this weird kind of sub-life in some part of my head, where I sort of kept up with events from a spy's-eye view. I was never a very good spook; I was definitely a writer who took up spying rather than a spy who took up writing...
Were he still alive, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's consummate cold war spook, would have launched a full-scale internal investigation, condemning a conversation of any substance between Primakov, a longtime Kremlin Middle East expert, and Woolsey, a specialist on nuclear and conventional arms control, as treasonous. During most of their careers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union struggled for every square foot of terrain anywhere on earth that one might win from the other. With nuclear war in the balance, Moscow and Washington focused most of their spies' efforts, and spent most of their intelligence budgets, on each...
...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...