Word: spokesman
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...insists it is only trying to protect the public. "We want to recover the URLs from people who have websites that claim an affiliation with us that does not exist," says IOC spokesman Franklin Servan-Schreiber. "Some are claiming to sell tickets they do not have, and others are promoting betting on the Olympics." But the IOC, an organization not renowned for its sensitivity to criticism, appears also to be trying to stifle coverage. Servan-Schreiber says that once the IOC had "recovered" disputed URLs, it would allow responsible organizations to license them. "This would give us more editorial control...
...much. If anything, his noncompliance served to plant the sneaking suspicion that he's not comfortable meeting Gore in the traditional debate setting - a setting which, although dismissed by Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer as "rehearsed and wooden," provides a familiar and stable backdrop that voters have come to depend on over the last three presidential elections...
Gore's office said that the vice-president appears not to have made the late November call to Umphrey, but that in any case the two did not speak. Gore spokesman Jim Kennedy noted that the memos have long been in the possession of both Capitol Hill investigators and the Justice Department's campaign finance task force. "Republicans and others have had this for more than 1,000 days," Kennedy said. "No one found it interesting till 1,000 hours before the election...
...them on a peace accord. The opportunity for a peace accord "is fleeting and about to pass," Clinton worried. But after rounds with both men in a regal 35th-floor suite of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, the President came up empty-handed. "I have no breakthroughs to report," Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart said after the two separate meetings...
...held their first-ever conversation - U.S. officials were especially eager to ensure that nobody read any geopolitical meaning into the moment. "A chance encounter" initiated by Castro, said Secretary of State Albright, insisting that the conversation had been "cordial" but "of no substance." A "momentary exchange," said National Security spokesman P. J. Crowley. "They exchanged a few words," said White House spokesman Joe Lockhart, who even insisted the two men hadn't shaken hands, only to be corrected later by U.S. officials who'd been in the room...