Word: spokeswoman
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...This will probably add some time to the deliberative process," Sharon Snyder, a Federal Election Commission (FEC) spokeswoman said of a GOP request that federal money be held up until the FEC can rule on questions raised by Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen's (D.-Tex.) pursuit of the vice-presidency and re-election to the Senate at the same time...
...tobacco industry, as expected, blasted the Surgeon General's report. "The claims that smokers are 'addicts' defy common sense and contradict the fact that people quit smoking every day," said Brennan Moran, a spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute. "The Surgeon General has mistaken the enemy," declared Democratic Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina. "In comparing tobacco -- a legitimate and legal substance -- to insidious narcotics such as heroin and cocaine, he has directed 'friendly fire' at American farmers and businessmen...
...Bruins spokeswoman Heidi Holland said the building was cleared for security reasons. Police hurried everybody out of the Garden, saying the emergency lights would not stay on long...
...There is no doubt that Accutane can cause birth defects, says its manufacturer, Roche Laboratories of Nutley, N.J. But Roche has received reports of only 61 malformed infants born to women who have taken the drug, and the company sharply disputes the figures in the FDA memo. Says Roche Spokeswoman Carolyn Glynn: "The data are grossly exaggerated." An FDA representative acknowledges that Roche's tally is correct and that the 900 to 1,300 figures are projections, not official figures. The internal report containing them was originally meant to be discussed this week, when FDA and Roche officials will meet...
...Sowle Cahill of Boston College. Sister Margaret Nulty of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious says, "More needs to be done, but this is a step in the right direction." But the liberal Women's Ordination Conference expressed frustration. "There was an attempt, but there's no movement," complains Spokeswoman Ruth Fitzpatrick. The Vatican offered no reaction. Oddly enough, few officials there even knew the paper was forthcoming, and none got an advance look at it. The American bishops' strategy, observed an official warily, seems to be to "get items onto the table by quoting them as the views...