"Then," she said, with tight control, "you'd better make sure that we've got the ear of the top spokesman for the feds in this Park."

Based on his Botoxlike ability to say absolutely anything with a straight face, he'd recently been made the tobacco industry's top spokesman.

Chuck Greener, the company's top spokesman, said the decision "will have a negative impact on our minimum capital position" but declined to quantify it.

Lawrence Di Rita, the top spokesman for the Pentagon, called the editor's note "very tepid and qualified."

Mr. Zadran, 53, was once the Taliban's top spokesman in the United States.

Umenyiora opened up, and he has become one of the team's top spokesmen.

When the campaign started, Labor's top financial spokesman, John Smith, announced his budget ideas.

Asked about the issue on Thursday, the top military spokesman in Baghdad appeared to defend the practice without referring specifically to the Lincoln Group's activities.

But the officials said they were not troubled by any possible conflict between the Senator's roles in Congress and as the party's top spokesman.

Darren Dopp, 47, the top spokesman for the attorney general's office, would be the governor's communications director, these people say.