Word: spokesman
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...former, according to a spokesman, would be an "unfair and misguided imposition on Mr. Gates's time." On the latter, Microsoft stuck to its well-worn Coke analogy; the source code, it said, was the "software equivalent to the formula for Coca-Cola." Not only that, handing it over would "reveal plans for future operating systems." That's why they want the government experts examining it to agree not to work for Redmond's rivals in the next few years. No, says the government, that would bankrupt them...
...Some of our technology goes back to 1971," said Capitol Police spokesman Sergeant Dan Nichols after an in-depth security study in 1996. "Maintenance is a problem. Finding parts is a problem. It was considered to be an emergency." A supplemental appropriations bill, passed earlier this year, included $20 million for improved Capitol perimeter security. But it is unlikely any of that would have ensured that Weston would be blocked. In the hours after the shooting, lawmakers were united in their determination not to shut down access in response to the incident. Late that night Nichols announced that the Capitol...
...principals in our latest scandal have spent a lot of time trying to improve the picture of themselves that's in the record. Monica Lewinsky subjected herself to glitz-porn on the beach in an effort to replace that awful shot of her in the beret. In hiring a spokesman, Kenneth Starr was hoping we'd forget that picture of him smiling insipidly in his driveway while holding a black plastic bag of garbage. The President hopes that pictures of him toasting world leaders will replace the picture of him chewing his lower lip while being evasive about Lewinsky...
...didn't invite him to the fund-raiser. The New York Post says the trouble started when the brothers endorsed different candidates for a New York Senate seat and escalated after Billy was elected to succeed Alec as president of the Creative Coalition, a liberal actors' activist group. A spokesman for Billy denied there was a rift...
...Thus did Lockheed offer to pay $15 million per missile if three out of their next five tests, starting in November or December, end ignominiously. A spokesman said the five failures had forced Lockheed to "apply additional resources in the area of quality." And this is a firm with plenty of resources to play with. As Thompson out, "$75 million isn't a lot of money to Lockheed" -- especially not with the approximately $3.2 billion the company has already received for THAAD from the government. No prizes for guessing who gets stuck with the bill...