Word: spokesman
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Canadian universities are also answering record numbers of requests for transfer information. A spokesman for the University of Alberta said the university has been receiving six to 12 phone calls daily from worried Iranians in the United States. Normally the university gets only three or four inquiries per month, he said...
...spokesman for the Yale Corporation said President A. Bartlett Giamatti felt a need to raise faculty salaries because they must remain competitive. However, the spokesman said the corporation's primary concern is to balance the budget by 1981 and end the deficit that has plagued Yale since...
...hardline Marcos opponents among the clergy are still a minority at all levels and in all orders, but the sympathy of the silent majority, of whom Sin is the spokesman, is shifting towards their side. With increasing unity among its hierarchy, the Pope's divisions can demonstrate their power. Buttressed by the weaker publications and radio stations, the Church possesses institutional stability and a nationwide reach. Several leading opposition politicians readily admit to using Catholic and Protestant churches to distribute suppressed materials and hold illegal meetings. They also benefit from a certain "halo effect," gaining credibility because of their association...
Angry cabbies immediately charged that the 10-per-cent increase was not enough to pay for the gas. "Our livelihoods are at stake," Peter Lowber, a spokesman for the 75 cabbies, said...
...spokesman for Lord Soames, Rhodesia's British caretaker governor, last week charged Mugabe's Mozambique-based forces with flagrant cease-fire violations. Soames extended the state of emergency, which was due to expire this week, for another six months. From...