Word: spokeswoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schools. The case has been returned to the U.S. district court in Topeka, which will decide on remedies. Linda Brown Buckner, whose father was the plaintiff in the original case, was among the Topeka parents who revived the lawsuit in 1979. Says her sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson, the family spokeswoman: "The quality of education was slipping, and it appeared that the only way to get attention was legal redress...
...Federal Aviation Administration is not satisfied: in March the agency reported that American had failed to detect weapons in 24 security tests in 1988, the worst performance among the 26 carriers that were fined. If the FAA determines that American let the hijack weapons get through, said an agency spokeswoman, "the carrier would certainly be subject to a $10,000 penalty...
...town's involvement transcends checkbook activism. Media-shy Meryl Streep performs as spokeswoman for Mothers and Others for Pesticide Limits. The names of celebs who huddled around a garbage-filled storm drain at a rally for Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica, Calif., group, read like a short list for the 25 most intriguing people: thirtysomething people (Ken Olin, Patricia Wettig), sitcom people (Justine Bateman, John Ritter), people named Moon and Dweezil Zappa. A sludge protest drew Dynasty's Linda Evans to Olympic, Wash. More recently, Dennis Weaver, Michael Landon and Robert Downey Jr. voiced their protest against offshore...
...attempt to pass a House resolution granting his subcommittee the authority to get the records on its own. The IRS insists that it has complied as fully as the law allows by turning over 12,000 pages of documents and making available 75 agency employees as witnesses. Says IRS spokeswoman Ellen Murphy: "It's unfortunate that the cooperation we have given is ignored because the law prohibits us from talking about a couple of obviously interesting cases...
...years Suzman, a former university lecturer in economic history, was the only liberal opposition member of the house, making her the Progressive Party's spokeswoman. She slashed at purveyors of apartheid, once advising government ministers that they could learn something about their country if they would attend a funeral in a black township, "heavily disguised, of course, as human beings." But she opposed foreign economic sanctions against South Africa, arguing that they hurt blacks and drive whites into a siege mentality...