Word: spokeswoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Wisconsin, students even threatened to boycott the Milwaukee company's brew, while the Daily Iowan's editorial column slammed Miller for "propaganda that is so blatantly offensive to a wide variety of people." Miller responded to the uproar by canceling the advertisement's future appearances. Said company spokeswoman Susan Henderson: "We blew...
...tobacco industry, used to harsh reports from the Surgeon General, tried to blunt the latest attack with newspaper ads saying that "enough is enough." Said Brennan Dawson, a spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute: "The report represents an escalation in the antismoking campaign." Surgeon General Koop certainly hopes so. His stated goal is to make the U.S. a "smoke-free society by the year...
...lose and wants to get into a bikini," says Jim Parsons, Optifast's director. Nor are they for the do-it- yourselfer. "If you use an over-the-counter formula product as your sole source of nutrition, it's like playing Russian roulette," says Joan Horbiak, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Patients in liquid-diet programs occasionally suffer temporary side effects, such as fatigue, constipation, dizziness and hair loss...
...fees ranging from $200 to $2,000. Employers have sometimes willingly falsified papers to make sure their source of cheap migrant workers remains available. While the extent of fraud is debatable, its existence is not. "We had applicants flying in from New York," says Mariela Melero, Houston district INS spokeswoman. Some supposed farm workers, when interviewed by INS, described picking chili peppers with ladders or stooping to harvest grapefruit...
...corporation got was a run-down facility with bursting pipes, flooding basements and no one trained in physical-plant management. "It was crisis that brought us together," Gray says. Welfare mothers learned plumbing skills, children were pressed into clean-up patrols. The residents thrived, and Gray became a national spokeswoman for the movement...