Word: spokesman
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...Marx, purveyors of off-the-peg businessman style for more than 100 years, has been enduring a three-year slump even though it retains an 11% share of the U.S. men's suit market. Brooks Brothers posted a 41% drop in operating profits for the past fiscal year. A spokesman for Marks & Spencer, the British department-store outfit that now owns Brooks, blamed "difficult trading conditions and severe price cutting by department stores...
Some Palestinians reacted with joy to the death of "someone who believed that all non-Jews were animals," as a spokesman for the extremist group Islamic Jihad put it. But they also feared reprisals from Kahane followers. Faisal Husseini, one of the most prominent Palestinian leaders in Jerusalem, warned that "the Kach supporters represent a real danger to the life of every Arab...
...coincidence, they say, that partisans are divided roughly along racial lines. While no one suggests a formal link, the protests coincide with a surge in ethnic tensions and racially motivated crimes, both locally and nationally. "There's a potential for violence in these demonstrations," says Bill Robinson, a longtime spokesman for the San Diego police department. "What we're seeing is political conservatives protesting against people who are hungry and looking for work...
...announced, the Sun, Britain's leading tabloid, cautioned its readers, "It won't be long before the garlic-breathed bastilles will be here in droves once the Channel Tunnel is open." Deep in the British psyche there is a conservatism about ending the island-nation status. Labour Party transport spokesman John Prescott calls this attitude one of England's greatest problems. "We're going to have to be more reoriented toward Europe," he says. In spite of Britain's reservations, when the main breakthrough occurs on Dec. 1, men will meet, clasp hands and celebrate the fulfillment of a dream...
...striking distance of completing the first tunnel under the English Channel. Measurements taken through the probe hole showed the two approaches were out of line by a horizontal distance of only 20 in. after huge boring machines had chewed their way through 24 miles of undersea chalk. Said a spokesman for TransManche Link, the Anglo-French consortium responsible for design and construction: "It was like throwing out a line to the moon and getting within a 10-ft. circle." The remaining 325 or so feet of chalk separating the two tunnels will now be excavated, and on Dec. 1, nearly...