Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DOLE. Republicans agree that Dole has no competition as the party's top spokesman, but opinions are divided about his intentions. Most believe that Dole, who will be 73 in 1996, will not run for reasons...
...service after failing to receive a payment he had made through the ScanFone system. In New York City, hundreds of subway passengers complained last month that the new electronic fare cards were double-charging them for rides or failing to let them through the automated turnstiles. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority blamed the confusion on riders who had not yet learned to use the cards properly and were running them twice through the bar-code reader at the turnstile...
...prices instead of frequent-flyer miles, both carriers declined. And shortly before Delta Airlines announced its latest job cuts, the carrier said it had joined forces with Varig Airlines of Brazil to expand Delta's frequent-flyer program. Frequent-flyer miles "are not going away," says Tony Molinaro, a spokesman for United. "We wouldn't do it if it wasn't really worth it." Especially now that consumers will pay more to fly free...
...burden of a pioneer to be the presumed spokesman for all "his people." Ellison, a sensible gent, declined this honor. He was not every black writer; he was a black writer -- or, as he might prefer, a writer. And, for some blacks, he was guilty of having allowed himself to be praised by white critics. In the '60s, when the civil rights sing-along gave way to Black Power shock therapy, Ellison found himself overshadowed by more urgent novelists, such as Richard Wright (Native Son), who played Malcolm X to Ellison's Martin Luther King Jr. Ellison compiled two volumes...
...city without electricity or water, the foolish few who ventured out into the streets to forage for food were too traumatized to eat after passing rows of mutilated bodies lying in pools of blood. "Hundreds of thousands are cut off from anything decent or human," said U.N. spokesman Moctar Gueye. "People are starving to death in their own houses. Hospitals are not functioning...