Word: spokeswoman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jumped from $3.7 million to $5.2 million, partly to help trumpet the launch of Escada Sport, a new line. At the same time, the number of Escada's appearances in the fashion pages of national publications and Women's Wear Daily tripled, from about 30 to 90. A company spokeswoman points out that Escada did not always receive its best editorial coverage in publications where it most heavily advertised. Still, Escada clearly got something for its $5.2 million. "No one's going to say, 'Give me an ad, and I'll give you two credits,'" says an insider...
Henry Foster countered family values with family values. The Christian Coalition had been running full-page ads against him that screamed "If You Liked [former U.S. Surgeon General] Joycelyn Elders, You'll Love Henry Foster." A spokeswoman for the Family Research Council, a conservative think tank, declared that anyone who votes for Foster "will regret it when it comes to election time." Indeed, Republican presidential candidates cannot afford to alienate the pro-life wing by allowing Foster to be confirmed as Surgeon General; and last week, Senate majority leader Bob Dole threatened to withhold a full-floor vote on Foster...
Women's groups, and especially the "Packwood 26," as his accusers came to be known, have been angered by the committee's pace. "His resurrection is a casebook example of crisis management," said Patricia Reilly, a spokeswoman for the National Women's Political Caucus who worked with the accusers. "As time goes by, the justice dwindles away. As in everything in Washington, if there isn't a sense of urgency, nothing gets done...
Still, all hospitals double-check the dosage of chemotherapy drugs that are given to a patient--and Dana-Farber is no exception. According to Gina Vild, a hospital spokeswoman, once the physician has written the order, Dana-Farber's rules require two pharmacists to verify it. "Pharmacist 1 is supposed to check it and, yes, is supposed to make the calculations himself," she told TIME. He then "gives it to Pharmacist 2, who looks at it and checks it" before sending the drug to the patient's room. When the order for Lehman came through, neither pharmacist caught the mistake...
...that's something the industry has avoided. More than 800 antismoking lawsuits have been filed since 1954, but not a single cigarette maker has been forced to pay a single penny in damages. Says Maura Ellis, a spokeswoman for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.: "Juries have consistently found that smokers should be held responsible for their own actions." But public sentiment began to shift during last year's congressional hearings, in which tobacco executives stubbornly refused to admit that smoking was addictive, even as internal company memos revealed that cigarette makers have long understood-and hidden-nicotine's addictive properties. Says...