Word: spokesman
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Susan and David were too distraught to appear in public for the first few days; David's father and many other family members moved in with Susan to lend her comfort, and a relative served as spokesman. But eventually the parents faced the cameras to enlist their power. "Michael, Alex, we love you very much and we're not giving up on you," David said. "Hang on and be strong...
Such generalized responses immediately raised questions of exactly how onerous such a surrender might be. The drug lords were optimistic. Samper's statement, said a spokesman for Rodriguez, "is the answer we've been waiting for." U.S. officials, however, preferred to think otherwise. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gelbard said that Bogota had previously "told us their strong preference is to capture them rather than to go for the kind of surrender program the previous government was so enthusiastic about." If a deal was struck, he said, U.S. ambassador to Colombia Myles Frechette "doesn't believe they will be lenient...
...jibes as, "I don't want to be the Speaker. I want to be the listener." And while he respectfully and boyishly refers to the Speaker as "Mr. Foley," his hard-edged campaign ads paint the incumbent as the symbol of everything that is wrong with Washington. As Nethercutt spokesman Terry Holt puts it, "Foley is running against a political environment...
...Komi is suspect. A local civilian defense official asserted firmly, for example, that "not one bird, not one animal has died" from the oil. That's highly implausible, even if it were possible to know such a thing. Bibikov insists the Pechora River was unaffected. Yet a spokesman for Greenpeace in Moscow says fishermen almost 300 miles downriver on the Pechora reported large amounts of oil in their nets last week...
...women say they were victims of verbal harassment and groping during computer training sessions. The allegations cover a period of over a year and a half ending in September. The probe of the instructors -- all of whom served at least six years, "long enough to know better," a spokesman said -- only began after an officer heard about the incidents through a casual conversation with one accuser. BTW: The investigation's been slowed because of the 23 people allegedly involved, only four are still at the school.Post your opinion on theThe Sexesbulletin board...