Word: spokesman
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What Congress member or Administration official dares inform these people that for years they have been getting more than they deserved? "Everyone right now is standing like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, pointing in both directions and looking to see who goes first," says Ari Fleischer, spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee. "Clearly this reform will not be successful without President Clinton's leadership," says William Roth, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Clinton, however, has only asked his economic team to evaluate the report of that panel, which was headed by Michael Boskin...
...less forceful on the problem of Slobodan Milosevic, whom he criticized cautiously: "We join in condemning the Serbian government's decision to ignore the results of the Nov. 17 elections. The people of Serbia deserve what their neighbors in Central Europe have -- clean elections." In Washington, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said the United States would continue "turning up the flame" on Milosevic. Milosevic is sure to feel more heat after Dejan Bulatovic, arrested after he held aloft a effigy of the Serb president dressed in jailbird stripes, was beaten and tortured while in prison. The official charge? Traffic violations...
That was kind of like choosing between an apple and an apple with a worm in it. "If you're going to keep one of the two pieces, why not make it the one that is by far the market leader?" says First Data spokesman Don Sharp. And the point is, If Western Union is so clearly better, why should anyone invest in MoneyGram? Even before the company was rejected by other buyers, some of MoneyGram's biggest agent networks were fleeing. "It was like a piece of merchandise that didn't move, so we dropped it," says Tom Dingledy...
...corner, but these days you have no guarantee he will stay there. This centralization can increase the risk of administrative errors like the one that occurred recently in Arizona when an SCI cluster facility mistakenly cremated a body that was supposed to be shipped intact to Utah. A spokesman for SCI, however, says such an error is no more likely to occur in a cluster than in any other operation. "We run very strict procedures for the identification and tracking of bodies," he says. "Even at that, we're not infallible...
...Winners." In response to the demonstrations, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has shut down one independent radio station and jammed another that was providing favorable coverage of the anti-government protests. The stations struck back by distributing news updates via email and over the Internet. State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns said Monday that "the United States would be outraged if any attempt was made to use force against the demonstrators," possibly reimposing economic sanctions. Backed by a 80,000-man police force, Milosevic isn't likely to be toppled any time soon. But exactly what concessions Milosevic seems ready to make...