Word: spokesman
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...Justice Department wasn't kidding when it said it would keep an eye on Microsoft's corporate behavior. It is taking a closer look at the software giant's purchase last month of the internet software producer Vermeer Technologies to check for possible anti-trust considerations. Microsoft spokesman Greg Shaw defended the acquisition, calling it "pro-competitive" and "pro-consumer". According to Philip Elmer-Dewitt, TIME's Science Editor, the Justice action stems from the anti-trust issues which surrounded Microsoft last summer at the release of Windows 95. "The vigilance now is all fallout from last summer when Judge...
...militias, armed with machetes and hammers, to "clean up" after the army's operations, killing some women and children and driving the rest into the hills. Hutu rebels, for their part, also target civilians--Tutsi and Hutu moderates alike. Neither side is apologetic. Lieut. Colonel Longin Minani, an army spokesman in the capital, explains the military clean-up operations this way: "If rebels use the population as a screen to protect themselves, am I supposed to fold my hands and do nothing? [Civilian deaths] are unfortunate but unavoidable...
...recent expression of the policy came earlier this month when U.S. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, commenting on Yeltsin's dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Anatoli Chubais--the sole surviving pro-market official in the Cabinet--asserted that it was "absolutely essential" for Yeltsin to "reaffirm the reform basis of the Russian government...
...skilled U.S. engineers are not always available on a timely basis." Microchip giant Intel, for example, hired 300 engineers with master's or doctoral degrees last year. About 100 of them came from outside the U.S. "It's a pretty small number percentage-wise," says Tom Waldrop, an Intel spokesman, "but they have a very high effect on the success of the company...
...candidates as he would for his own re-election: "The American people don't think it's the President's business to tell them what ought to happen in the congressional elections." But after Ron Wyden gave Democracts the biggest lift they've had in two years, Clinton's spokesman Mike McCurry put the President back in the fray. "He will campaign early and often with Democratic candidates and he's going to elect a whole bunch of them," said McCurry. "He might even elect a majority in the Congress." Says TIME's James Carney: "Clinton is taking...