Word: spokesman
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...without checking whether OMB has sanctioned a plan to pay for them with cuts elsewhere. This month he stepped in to require a more thorough vetting of measures that would tighten food-safety regulations. "There were more people running around with their own little pet projects," says White House spokesman Michael McCurry. "Raines has reined...
...felt snakebit when, an hour before the scheduled State of the Union speech, the Simpson jury announced they had reached a verdict. As the White House frantically phoned networks to make sure they would not break away from covering the speech (NBC said they would use a split screen), spokesman Mike McCurry said that, despite the fuss over the Simpson verdict, the speech would go on as scheduled. One House Republican even asked if he could bring a portable television into the chamber so he wouldn't miss the verdict. Oddly enough, in a country obsessed by the travails...
Slatkin is equally committed to being an active spokesman for the arts in the capital. He acts as host of a weekly show on the local classical radio station, has taken the orchestra to area churches and, most unusual for a big-name conductor, has been handling many of the children's concert's himself rather than assigning them to an assistant. "I think it is crucial that the message to the young people comes from the person in charge of the organization," he says. Privately, he is lobbying Hillary Rodham Clinton on behalf of all American cultural institutions...
...equip them with minicameras or other sensory devices so that they can crawl into pipes to track vermin or, in a more heroic endeavor, be sent into earthquake rubble to locate survivors. Sewage inspection should suit them just fine: cockroaches are scavengers that eat their own. A spokesman for Combat Insect Control Systems, which makes household insecticides, says there is no shortage of roaches for such duties (more than 3,500 species exist), "but it will probably be hard to get the cameras back. Cockroaches don't like to be around people in commotion. And they generally die on their...
SPOKANE, Wash.: The circumstantial evidence linking three prisoners in Spokane to the Olympic Park bombing may be growing. Telephone records reportedly show that someone in the Atlanta area phoned one of the suspects at his Idaho home at approximately the time the bomb exploded six months ago today. The Spokesman-Review of Spokane reports that the Justice Department and the FBI are investigating three men accused of bombing a bank, an abortion clinic and a newspaper office in the Pacific Northwest. The men, also charged with robbing two banks in the Spokane area, are currently in jail awaiting trial...