Word: spokesman
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...error? "Ayrton Senna made a mistake," Carweek magazine quoted Williams-Renault technical director Patrick Head as saying. "We have checked the telemetry. He slightly lifted his foot just at that dip in the place where the tarmac changes. That caused a loss of grip from the car." A Williams spokesman later denied that Head said Senna had made a mistake...
Asked about Hyde's about-face, a spokesman for the Illinois State Rifle Association said, "It is safe to say anyone who voted for the ban is someone we'll be looking to replace." Hyde says he has already been handed a picture of Hitler, compared to Marshall Petain and accused of betraying his oath. The experience has made him wonder whether "people can honestly change their minds and still be fellow citizens and deserve space on this planet." The N.R.A. will let him know...
Even at that level, however, some high-paid union members with working spouses would be hit. It is perhaps a measure of organized labor's success -- at least for the shrunken ranks of its members -- that David Saltz, an AFL- CIO spokesman, protests that "just because something hurts upper-income people, that doesn't make it progressive...
...negotiate. The Hutu army chief of staff guaranteed safe passage to U.N. soldiers evacuating wounded Tutsi civilians. But soldiers along the road stopped the convoy, ordered people out and set upon them with machetes. "They said they didn't take orders from the army chief of staff," said U.N. spokesman Abdul Kabia...
...take them, by other social forces like the white-dominated business sector, the civil service, the police and army, and the nine new provincial governments. The country's democratization, says Hermann Giliomee, a leading Afrikaner academic, is "a bold and brave experiment with a real chance of success." A.N.C. spokesman Carl Niehaus points to purely pragmatic limits on policy: "In order to keep the country afloat, to get economic growth, to avoid further flight of capital and skills from the country, you have to play it that...