This "sexually charged public space," as Wiltse describes it, set off moral panic.
A lower rate, creditors have argued, would punish investors too much and could not be described as voluntary, thus setting off credit default swaps on Greek debt — an outcome that Europe fears would lead to another round of market assaults on the debt of other vulnerable countries like Portugal.
Like the explorers whose journeys he describes, Garfield is happiest when setting off for uncharted waters and most infectious as a writer when describing things in the first flush of enthusiasm.
As someone who describes the authorial brainstorm of setting off a bomb in "The Stand" because the story was becoming overpopulated, he may not be the most noble of stylists, but there's no denying that he knows how to make a story fly.
The origins of Obama's Cuba project can be found in an intemperate remark made during his initial run for the White House, setting off what he described as "one of the first big hubbubs in my Presidential campaign".
She nodded; they set off.
