Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spokesmen for the two contractors insisted that they had not defaulted on the contract and said they would seek payment of all their claims against the government. They attributed the problems to a recent Pentagon practice that they consider unrealistic: insisting that a fixed price be determined in advance for projects that are, as a General Dynamics spokesman said, "on the cutting edge of technology...
Government spokesmen must say such things, if only because governments are supposed to be more enduring than human beings. But Baker's disclaimer should not be taken at face value. In fact "personality" -- that is, the identity of the No. 1 man in the Kremlin, and even the No. 1 man in the Foreign Ministry -- is crucial in Soviet politics and therefore in U.S.-Soviet relations as well...
...Auction spokesmen put what spin they could on it all, speaking of increased selectivity, a healthy trimming of the market, and how first-rate things would continue to get first-rate prices. (That an exceptional painting could still make an exceptional price was in fact confirmed earlier this month at Sotheby's in London when a great Constable landscape, The Lock, 1824, was bought by Baron Thyssen for $21.1 million.) Michael Findlay, head of Christie's Impressionist and modern art sales, called the market a "roller coaster" -- inexactly, since roller coasters go up and down but always finish...
...Navy spokesmen say all the rape cases were dropped either for lack of evidence or because the victims recanted. Still, the Inspector General criticized the investigation procedures. Last week the Navy brass -- already embarrassed during the past year by allegations of sexual harassment at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and of rape aboard two Navy ships -- ordered a service-wide review...
Communist spokesmen said their party headquarters had indeed sent two payments totaling $63 million to Moscow in September, before German unification took place. The money, they said, was for support of communist students and upkeep on a youth training center in the Soviet capital...