Word: spokesman
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...Cold War, news of a Soviet leader promising to slash one third of his nuclear arsenal would have made banner headlines worldwide. But when Boris Yeltsin made that pledge in Sweden on Tuesday, it barely rated a mention. Which could have something to do with the fact that his spokesman, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, told reporters that his boss had been "tired" when he spoke ? and no, this was not a promise, merely a suggestion...
...being dismantled by asset strippers or from going down the tubes like Eastern Air Lines. He also gave Northwest employees stock that has tripled in value. "Look," he says, "we took one of the worst airlines in America and made it one of the most profitable." But Paul Omodt, spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association for Northwest, says the LBO was "disastrous" for the employees, who ended up bailing out the company in return for stock and three directors' seats. As for the state's involvement, critics like Minneapolis' Federal Reserve Bank researcher Art Rolnick say what Checchi touts...
...program had been strictly defensive, and then that all Iraq's biological agents had been destroyed. When inspectors uncovered caches of germ agents, she blandly claimed that only a few small quantities had survived. "Iraq has said that it destroyed stockpiles of biological weapons after the war," says Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. "We have absolutely no confirmation that that has happened. We assume that they do have some stockpiles of biological weapons." In addition to thousands of gallons of anthrax and botulinum and smaller quantities of other poisons, some "weaponized" germs are unaccounted for: artillery shells, missile warheads and bombs...
...confidential settlement between the Italian seller of the work and the Goodmans, but got to keep its commission of more than $100,000 on the original sale. "We sell thousands of works of art every year and check every one of them with an electronic data bank," explains a spokesman for the auction house. "In this case, the disputed ownership did not turn...
...mention that Sahr is opening up a School Sucks Israel? "The plan now is 15 languages ready by next September," he says. Israel is where the 26-year-old Miami native learned to work the press while he served as a spokesman for the Israeli army during the Gulf War. "I learned so much. It was a real eye-opener," he says. When he returned to the U.S., he became fixated on the Internet. "I kept thinking to myself that what the Internet is about is faucets," he says. "He who has his hand on certain faucets of information...