Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...influence drops precipitously after his sixth year, Clinton and his advisers are feeling the shadow of Reagan and urgently pondering the question, What is Clintonism? "We've been out there moving the ship in a very good direction, but we haven't had any navigational charts," concedes White House spokesman Mike McCurry...
...Pope's insistence on human rights, says Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls, has shaped a "new moral doctrine." But unlike Fidel, John Paul II realizes that it makes no sense to try to impose that doctrine: people must be convinced that it is right to act according to certain values. "The Pope," says Navarro-Valls, "is not interested in beating people into submission but in showing them and convincing them this makes sense." John Paul II, says a papal aide, "won't come as a conquistador...
...Lobster, the largest seafood chain in North America, says that less than 1% of what it spends on seafood goes for swordfish, but that's a lot, since the company serves 150 million meals a year in its 685 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada. While Red Lobster spokesman Rick Van Warner insists that "we consider ourselves stewards of the environment rather than users," the company has no immediate plans to take swordfish off the menu...
...Jersey's decision to allow gay couples to adopt jointly [NATION, Dec. 29-Jan. 5] was called "another effort by the homosexual lobby to advance their agenda" by a spokesman for the Christian Coalition. The real agenda of proud adoptive papas Jon Holden and Michael Galluccio is to provide two-year-old Adam with a loving home--exactly what the dedicated couple have been doing as foster parents since Adam was a cocaine-addicted infant. What could be more Christian than that? How odd that in 1997 the religious right insists that the Ozzie and Harriet family of the 1950s...
...Among Flacks As the Presidency sinks into scandal, White House spokesman Mike McCurry is steadily gaining luster. The secret of his success...