Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listening tour. By all accounts it's an odd event indeed. An audience of citizens is selected and gathered before her. While she listens they share their concerns, speak from their experience, give vent to their grievances. "She wants to listen to New Yorkers in small groups," her spokesman has said, "and learn about the issues that matter to them most." In an amazing telepathy that even the great Kreskin would envy, these issues turn out to be the ones that matter most to Mrs. Clinton...
Advocates of "listening" will of course defend it as a democratic advance--a sign that the politician has become an exquisitely tuned instrument, vibrating to every pulse that flutters up from his or her constituency. This might be nice if it were true, but again Mrs. Clinton's spokesman gave the game away. "The listening is the message," he said. What matters, in other words, isn't the listening. What matters is that people see you as you pretend to listen. This is not the good-faith tactic of a candidate in a democracy. In an illuminating coincidence, Hillary Clinton...
...decision to keep the investigation going, in light of Starr's assurances that his office's work continues, and that it had been "unusually productive," yielding 24 indictments, 16 convictions and the impeachment of Clinton. If Starr gets his successor, the job may not last long anyway ? a Starr spokesman confirmed that the team has already begun writing their ominous (but indictment-free) final report, which Starr says will be out "as soon as is practicable," hopefully by November 2000 (watch out, Hillary). One judge (unsurprisingly, the Carter appointee, not the Nixon or Reagan ones) didn?t want to wait...
...process through its onscreen "remote control" and by using that handy USB port. Yet I found the system klugey. For instance, I have a TV tuner in my PC, but since the Yamaha device bypasses the sound card the tuner resides on, the TV system doesn't work. A spokesman said I could fix the problem with the right adapters--but I had to buy them separately. Finally, the device supports only one set of speakers, which means you can forget quadraphonic. I ended up not using the Yamaha and buying a pair of Cambridge Soundworks PC Works speakers, tiny...
...Friday asked the Duma, the Russian parliament, not only to approve his appointee, intelligence chief Vladimir Putin, as prime minister, but also to approve a new law simplifying procedures for declaring a state of emergency. "The situation in the North Caucasus shows that this law is essential," a Yeltsin spokesman said. Putin can significantly boost his political prestige by swiftly resolving the Dagestan crisis. But if it drags out into another bloody war, it will ruin the election chances of Yeltsin?s anointed heir -? and that may, in turn, tempt the president to avoid the election altogether...