Word: spokeswoman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle against loitering teenagers, 7-Eleven stores thought about putting pointed lids on trash cans and flooding their premises with halogen lights. Finally the shops hit on the ultimate weapon: playing saccharine tunes guaranteed to send adolescents screeching into the night. Says 7-Eleven spokeswoman Margaret Chavris: "They won't hang around and tap their feet to Mantovani." Most teens agree. "Can you believe this nonsense?" says Ray LaVerne, 18, at Southland's store in Tillicum, Wash...
...controversial pop singer has problems as a product spokeswoman. Pepsi yanked a Madonna commercial off the air last year. She and Nike are fighting over an alleged $4.25 million package. Last week Reebok dropped her after a tentative deal for a $6 million contract...
...neuropharmacological drug products. "Depressed people commit suicide." Nonetheless, the agency is watching closely, and Eli Lilly revised its product literature in May to alert physicians to the suggested association with suicide. "But we emphasize that there is no reason to believe a cause-and-effect relationship exists," says company spokeswoman Marie Abbott...
Short of banning abortion outright, the pro-life movement is lobbying legislatures to impose reporting requirements on victims of rape and incest that would make such abortions nearly impossible to obtain. Says the National Right to Life Committee's spokeswoman, Susan Smith: "We do everything we can to eliminate abortions and to prevent funding for rape and incest, but where it is inevitable we lobby for tight reporting requirements to prevent fraud." The new tactic was explained at the National Right to Life Committee convention in Sacramento last month by Scott Fischbach, the group's field coordinator: Laws that...
...Idaho veto and the pending one in Louisiana have not caused pro-lifers to retreat from their position on rape and incest. National Right to Life Committee spokeswoman Smith cites Pennsylvania's experience to show that women lie about rape. When the state did not require that rape or incest be reported to appropriate authorities, an average of 36 rape-related abortions a month were paid for by the state. When reporting requirements took effect in 1988, that number went down to about three a month...