Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neighborhood spokesman Dean Johnson, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, told the licensing board that the bar attracts "a young and rowdy clientele" not in keeping with the "particular character and charm of Harvard Square...
James Nash, spokesman for the Massachusetts Council of Churches, said his Protestant organization had not taken a formal position on the latest school prayer law but had opposed similar measures in the past. He said he personally found the measure "distasteful...
Florida Power & Light Co., the state's largest electric utility (2.1 million customers) estimates that it lost $10 million in revenue during 1979 because of electricity thieves. Says a spokesman: "We check 100,000 meters a year and find at least 4,500 cases in which a meter has been tampered with." The company blames rising electricity rates, caused by the spiraling price of oil, for the crime boom...
Local police and utility companies are pursuing current diverters elsewhere in the land. The Edison Electric Institute a trade association for utilities, estimates that the industry is losing more than $400 million a year to meter cheaters. Says a Florida Power spokesman: "Paying customers are footing the bill...
...meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg two weeks ago, Berlinguer introduced a resolution that condemned the Afghanistan invasion but also called upon the nine members of the European Community to preserve détente by negotiating with the Soviet Union on their own. In Rome Communist Spokesman Luciano Barca said: "We are closer to the Social Democrats of Germany and Benelux than to the party in France...