Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moines, Iowa, turned its tap water back on for the first time in almost two weeks. But later in the week heavy rain returned to much of the area, causing still more flooding. "We are going to have another crest coming down," said Larry Crump, Army Corps of Engineers spokesman at Kansas City, Missouri. So far, the flood has killed at least 40 people, submerged 16,000 sq. mi. of farmland and caused $10 billion in damage...
Some whites fear that soon all Confederate monuments, cemeteries and even Georgia's Stone Mountain, with its huge granite memorials to Confederate heroes, will vanish. "Our culture is being eradicated," says Charles Lunsford, spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans. "When somebody declares war against your culture," he adds, "they're either going to back off or they're going to have...
...sell shares in companies that rose dramatically in value soon after they were issued. Says Jay Ritter, a professor of finance at the University of Illinois: "Speculators like Foley are just feeding at the trough, throwing sand in the economic gears between suppliers and users of capital." Foley's spokesman strongly disagreed: "There is no law saying an American citizen can't make money in the stock market, even if he is Speaker of the House of Representatives...
...Gallardo's girlfriend discovered him engaged in oral sex with her 10-year-old daughter; but she declined to file charges, and the case was dropped. Then in 1990, deputies responding to another complaint at the house (owned by Gallardo's father) found what Snohomish County sheriff's office spokesman Elliott Woodall describes as "a lot of very disturbing material of a cult nature, a satanic nature and a pornographic nature, all oriented toward young females." They reopened the statutory-rape case involving the 10-year- old, and Gallardo pleaded guilty...
...Aguirre, now with Volkswagen, and a feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office in Darmstadt. "But I can say with certainty that the papers did not belong to ((Alvarez))." Speaking through his attorney, Alvarez said the boxes contained no corporate secrets...