Word: spokesman
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...Over State Department protests that programs like AIDS prevention would be affected, D'Amato threatened to add the language to an appropriations bill. Zimbabwe backed down. A D'Amato spokeswoman says he is proud to have helped a New York company "unfairly treated by a foreign country." AIG's spokesman says it had intended to restrict only economic, not humanitarian...
...Tennessee's Vanderbilt University and a former newspaper editor, says, "Given the loss of human life and the threat to human life, if the FBI gave [the name] to me, I would have gone with it. But I'd be weeping now." Not so Carl Stern, a former spokesman for the Department of Justice and correspondent for NBC who now teaches journalism at George Washington University. "All this journalistic hand-wringing is unnecessary," he says. "The System worked. There is no one in the U.S. who does not have a good picture of who Richard Jewell is, what happened...
White House spokesman Mike McCurry is a genial guy. So maybe he was just being genial when he laughed off questions last week concerning the whereabouts of John Huang, the suddenly infamous former Democratic fund raiser. Huang, who steered cash to party coffers from the billionaire Riadys of Indonesia, had been out of sight for days. At a White House press briefing, McCurry danced around the problem. Why couldn't Huang meet with reporters? they asked. Too busy, McCurry said. Huang was preparing for a Federal Election Commission inquiry requested by the Clinton campaign. With a grin, McCurry added that...
Fears about the potential impact of 211 have already caused some companies to stop making predictions about their future. "We're not going to make any statement that could lead to frivolous lawsuits," said an Intel spokesman, after announcing that the company would no longer give such guidance to investors...
...states like Tennessee and Alabama. "The Pope is just an influential person; he's not a scientist," says Henry Morris, president emeritus at the Institute for Creation Research in Santee, California. "There is no scientific evidence for evolution. All the real solid evidence supports creation." Bill Hoesch, a spokesman for the institute, says, "[John Paul] would say that man's dignity does not suffer even if God used the process of evolving him from pond scum through the apes to the present so-called dignified position, and we would differ with that...