Mr. Lee is a retired spook, one of the guys in white hats whose unsung efforts helped the West win the Cold War.
"He is a man who will not spook Western investors because he is a good negotiator who has good external relations, " said Russian political analyst Igor Bunin.
Scotts can't market natural products in a way that will spook gardeners who buy the chemical-soaked stuff that helps them grow football-size tulips and tomatoes.
The turkeys' nature is to return to the area from which they were scattered, but hunters must be as still as possible -- even a small movement will spook the birds.
Many of the companies represented in her delegation have plants and factories in the frontier provinces on the Afghan border, a part of the country that might spook American investors.
Johnson kept his at the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas and, according to the U.S. Park Service that continues to maintain the property, loved to spook visitors by taking them for a ride in the Amphicar and pretending to lose control of the vehicle, veering off precipitously into a lake on the premises.
Shaw says that once Kelley set his mind to studying at CalArts, he quickly developed a fierce affection for Los Angeles, a laid-back city that didn't spook him like the art-world capital, New York.
Costly commodities will deter the resurgent American consumer, and may also spook the Federal Reserve into withdrawing monetary support at a faster pace.
Add it all up, and you have a fragmented universe of 6 million distinct issues that would daunt an NSA spook.
Using greeters to spook potential bank robbers has spread quickly since 2006, when a Seattle FBI agent, Lawrence Carr, included the idea in a widely disseminated program taught to bank security officers called SafeCatch.
Indeed, what if Bush had vetoed Sarbanes-Oxley, a law cruelly foisted on the economy in 2002 after the Enron and Worldcom scandals failed to spook the markets much at all.
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In the article, Michael Wilhelm notes that if Zuckerberg had shown up in a suit, it could actually have signaled that Facebook was moving away from its winning formula, which could spook employees (and presumably investors) who like the way things run now.
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