Word: spokesman
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...Other organizations feel the impact as well. Share Our Strength, a Washington-based nonprofit organization, provides funding for more than 500 food-based groups. "Many of the agencies we support are seeing big jumps," says Bill Shore, the group's executive director. Phil Shanholtzer, a U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman, says the federal agency is hearing anecdotal evidence of food-demand increases through its state and regional offices. He says a report will be released by the USDA later this year assessing "food insecurity" in America...
...when they began conducting interviews of witnesses. The FBI is not talking about the nature of the new information, or the likelihood it will lead to new arrests. "You have a 33-year-old case, and we don't want to raise expectations too high," says Craig Dahle, a spokesman for the FBI's Birmingham office. But, he adds, "we would not have reopened the case if we did not believe there was a basis for it, and a possibility of solving...
...torn apart. Organizations like the Arc, formerly the Association for Retarded Citizens, say they have been inundated with calls from parents afraid they will have to give up their children to foster care or institutionalization. "People tell us this is what's holding their family together," says Arc spokesman Marty Ford. "If you pull this card out, the whole house falls down...
...fact, Wynn would pay $55 million of the projected $330 million cost of the 1.8-mile roadway. Wynn spokesman Alan Feldman, who shamelessly wonders if the holdout residents are trying to bluff more money out of Mirage, says the project will provide road improvements that were planned years ago and will make the neighborhood a better place. Mayor Whelan insists that other roadway routes would have displaced even more homeowners. He's sorry about Bryant Drive, but if Atlantic City doesn't take this next step--"Not just another casino, but an 'Oh, wow!' destination resort"--it will...
...ANGELES: Robert Mitchum, for 50 years Hollywood's sleepy-eyed antihero, is dead at 79. Diagnosed in spring with lung cancer, Mitchum succumbed at 5 a.m. in his sleep Monday at his Santa Barbara County home, family spokesman Jerry Roberts said. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1917 as Robert Charles Duran Mitchum, he was one of Hollywood's earliest bad boys. He came from a deliciously checkered past of arrests, odd jobs, and wanderings, and in 1948, he was arrested for possession of marijuana at the home of a starlet. In interviews, Mitchum liked to blame his image on publicists...