Word: spokesman
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...tourists on a package trip to the Soviet Union last November, Ted and Cheryl Branch were a mousy couple whose bumbling efforts to defect were met with dismay by their Russian tour guide. The pair spoke no Russian and had no jobs. By last week, when Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov announced that the couple had been granted asylum, the Branches had become "specialists in mass communications...
Carol Brill, a spokesman for the National Association of Social Workers, said that "welfare recipients are being asked to eat the scraps on the table of plenty in Massachusetts." Brill added that inflation and foodstamp reductions will negate any increase in welfare spending...
...which spilled 600 gallons of oil into catch basins on the banks of the Charles River, was first detected Saturday night when Boston Edison engineers monitoring the pressure from a pumping station noticed a drop in oil pressure. The pipeline runs underneath the Charles, said Michael J. Monahan, the spokesman for the local electric company...
...containment booms and absorbent booms to soak up the oil and prevent it from entering the water," said Myles E. Brown, the spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering. "We won't know the full impact of the spill until the reports are in, but it seems that the environmental impacts will be minimal...
...allowing the city to seize the property upon which the college has long desired to build its new campus, the judgement clears the way for Emerson's possible move to Lawrence, said James R. Ball, spokesman for the Lawrence City Development Department...