Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Detroit, which for a decade fought air bags as being too expensive, now objects just as strenuously to disconnecting them. "The bottom line is that air bags in conjunction with seat belts save lives," says Chrysler spokesman Jason Vines. Concurs Lou Camp, the director of safety and engineering standards at Ford: "We believe that if the case for air bags is presented to customers properly, very few will choose to have them disconnected...
...their coercive overseers, thousands upon thousands of men, women and children then simply stood up and began pouring down the straight tarmac road toward Rwanda. By Saturday, 200,000 had crossed the border, and 350,000 more were on the way. They "looked healthy," reported Ray Wilkinson, a U.N. spokesman on the border. The formerly intimidated masses for whom the rescue mission was planned had suddenly freed themselves and decided en masse to go home: they could now reach aid supplies on their...
...between a man who resembled Bob Dole and a man whose past was reminiscent of Bob Dole's. In Max Cleland they chose the latter, a Vietnam War hero who lost two legs and an arm in a grenade explosion and then rebuilt his life through public service. A spokesman for Republican loser Guy Millner complained during the campaign that Cleland, 54, was "running on biography." But a remarkable biography it is: a triple amputee who overcame depression and prejudice to become a Georgia state senator, the head of the Veterans Administration under President Carter and a three-term secretary...
Well before sunrise on Tuesday morning, a high-speed convoy of government vehicles made the short drive from Boris Yeltsin's luxurious sanatorium in the village of Barvikha to the heart center on the edge of Moscow. The patient was in a good mood, his spokesman reported later, and joked with the doctors. After two months of waiting, wild rumors and some nasty Kremlin infighting, the Russian President's heart-bypass operation--a procedure as crucial politically as it was medically--had finally become a reality. At 2 p.m., after seven hours in the operating room, during which Yeltsin...
...their lawsuits. Attorneys Wood and Martin criticize the Journal-Constitution for asserting, in its special edition on the bombing, that Jewell sought publicity. "By saying he tried to be a hero," says attorney Bryant, "they gave him the motive, but it's not true." Bryant Steele, an AT&T spokesman who set up Jewell's interviews after the bombing, confirms that Jewell was not particularly eager for press attention. "From the time I spent with him," he says, "I saw no evidence...