Word: spokesman
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...lobby, led by the NFIB, has targeted the plan's requirement that all employers pay at least 3.5% of payroll for health insurance. Most small businesses that don't offer health insurance "just cannot afford to do so," even with the subsidies proposed in the Clinton plan, contends FBI spokesman Terry Hill...
...addition to his TV interests, Murdoch controls one-third of the circulation of the country's national daily newspapers, critics complain that his voice threatens to drown out all others. "It's not healthy for democracy, and it's not healthy for competition," says Robin Cook, a Labour Party spokesman. But in nondemocratic Asia, some experts draw the opposite conclusion about the acquisition of STAR TV. "This has considerable political, social and cultural implications," says Anne Thompson, a media analyst for Mees Pierson Securities in Hong Kong. "Repressive governments can't control information, can't control what people...
...back up? Even with Nelson Mandela's imprimatur, money is unlikely to come gurgling into South Africa soon. First investors will want to weigh the risks and prospects on the new political landscape. "Like others, we're reading the tea leaves before we decide what to do," said a spokesman for IBM, which sold its operations to a local concern known as ISM in 1987. The most intimidating hurdle that prospective investors face is the continuing level of factional violence, most of it black against black. Only a day after the pact on the transitional council was reached, another random...
...Arafat has transformed himself into a moderate in order to make peace and will have to curb his radical enemies. Still, they make it clear that they intend to do what they can to derail the interim plan. "We resisted the Israeli occupation," says Riad Malki, a West Bank spokesman for the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, "and we will resist Palestinian autonomy...
...already searched Jackson's Santa Ynez ranch for lurid videotapes; one report said nothing incriminating was found. The police were questioning other lads, supposedly including child star Macaulay Culkin. And when will results be issued? "It could be tomorrow, it could be two months from now," said L.A.P.D. spokesman Arthur Holmes. "We solve no crime before its time." This is Hollywood, folks; everyone speaks Show...