Word: spokesman
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...terra-cotta army of Xian, the Great Wall, the neon-lit Shanghai Bund at night, the ethereal karst mountains of Guilin and the towering tangle of Hong Kong's skyscrapers. It was a lot more fun than hanging around Washington not answering questions about Monica Lewinsky. As White House spokesman Michael McCurry put it, referring to last week's grand jury headliner, Linda Tripp: "The President has been concentrating on one trip, and it's China, not Linda...
...While a spokesman says finances are "stable," P.K. vice president Dale Schlafer pleaded, "If we continue to go in the hole in the events that we do, the future of Promise Keepers is in jeopardy." McCartney, a former university football coach, refuses to be discouraged. "I've been part of a football program that was on the bottom, and I saw it become one of the top programs. If the right people work together, with the power of the Holy Spirit, if the anointing of God is with you, you can go the distance." He and other organizers vow they...
...early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman Anatoly Tkachyov, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits. If its interlocking modules successfully separate, the station will then tumble piece by piece to Earth; Moscow hopes that whatever bits of the 120-ton space station don't burn up in free fall will quietly splash...
...local customers on ground that they have not yet opened their "loops" to such rivals as AT&T. But to stick to that stricture after an AT&T-TCI marriage would be "like protecting the wolves from the sheep, and it's just absolutely wrong," says Jerry Brown, a spokesman for US West...
...modest (largely derived from royalties on his memoirs), but not to worry, the state covers most of his expenses. This time around, he's silent. The Kremlin confirmed the figures, but gave no reason for the income jump. "Why should this figure upset so many journalists?" wondered a Kremlin spokesman. "Our President is by no means outrageously wealthy, and he has earned every kopeck honestly...