Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President-Elect, who was captain of the 1947 Yale baseball team, declined through a spokesman to forecast the result of today's Game...
...Dilshad, spokesman for the Federal Election Commission, said unofficial reports indicated a little more than 50 percent of the nation's 48 million eligible voters cast ballots...
...particularly vicious stereotype appears in a new Pontiac ad. The ad features representatives from a variety of car manufacturers. When the fictional spokesman for Nissan--an Asian actor--stands up he blathers on in basically incomprehensible English. We are meant to see him not only as an enemy, but as a particular type of enemy. He is loud and boorish, all bug-eyes and buck teeth. It is a convenient way to deal with American fears, making Asians seem at once crude and oddly polite and subservient...
...directory, a takeoff on the traditional "plum book" of political patronage, has a serious purpose: to stress "the consequences of failure to perform effectively" in sub-Cabinet Government offices. Explains former State Department spokesman John Trattner, who wrote the book: "A prune is a plum with experience...
...such vehicular mayhem justified? Many police and some legal experts argue that high-speed chases help maintain respect for the law. Says Sergeant Jim Mattos, spokesman for the California Highway Patrol: "As soon as you develop a policy of no chases, then the only people who are going to stop are the honest ones." Moreover, supporters insist, many chases end in the capture and arrest of serious criminals. Asks Donald Schroeder, adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan: "If it were the Son of Sam in the car that you were chasing, would...