Word: spokesman
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...officials, they began a probe that reveals a "constant pattern of abuse." Consumer-affairs director Jim Conran is seeking revocation of Sears' license to perform auto repairs in California. Says he: "These are not honest mistakes. This is the systematic looting of the public." Sears denies the charges. A spokesman for the company says that "while honest mistakes may have been made, we disagree with some of the allegations...
...Oklahoma activist, wary of losing control to local heavies, says he's keeping 35,000 petition signatures in a bank vault until he delivers them to state election officials. The Perot campaign insists that it is not trampling the grass. "Democracy, after all, is an unruly process," says Perot spokesman James Squires. Big changes are afoot within Perot's inner circle too. Hamilton Jordan, campaign manager and chief of staff for Jimmy Carter, has decided to join the campaign, as has former Reagan adviser Ed Rollins. They're just the kind of political pros Perot has been seeking...
...city hopes the summit will boost the flagging tourist industry, which has declined 60% in the past five years. "Protect the Tourist" has been adopted as a summit slogan, and the city has even created a special squad of "tourist police" to patrol the beaches. Says a spokesman for Mayor Marcello Alencar: "Rio is going to be one of the most secure cities in the world during the Earth Summit...
...Minister and, more broadly, to end the military's dominance of politics. After great bloodshed, the demonstrators won on the first score when Suchinda Kraprayoon stepped down from the premiership. The official count of those killed when troops opened fire on protesters stands at 53 but an Interior Ministry spokesman said last week that more than 500 people are still unaccounted...
PowerAde makes only oblique reference to its primary target, Gatorade, in its commercials. But Pepsi will take the champ head on. Touting "gulpability" (achieved by using wide-necked bottles), All Sport ads will knock Gatorade by stressing that, in the words of a Pepsi spokesman, "there is no reason a sports drink can't taste good." The commercials will also contrast 1960s black-and-white sports scenes with contemporary color action to emphasize that "our drink was formulated a generation after theirs...