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	<title>Prime Group</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Earlier ballot props set the stage for California&#8217;s predicament</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2009/earlier-ballot-props-set-the-stage-for-californias-predicament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 20:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-plus years ago the legendary political prankster Dick Tuck was an unsuccessful candidate for a Los Angeles-area congressional seat. The day after his defeat in the Democratic primary, Tuck opened a press conference by declaring, &#8220;The people have spoke, the bastards!&#8221;
This week, California voters rejected a batch of ballot measures that had been cobbled together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama is Wrong on Lobbying</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2009/barack-obama-is-wrong-on-lobbying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We haven&#8217;t immediately eliminated the influence of lobbyists in Washington.”
President Barack Obama, March 24 White House press conference 
What was expressed as a Presidential regret should, in fact, be cause for celebration by Americans of all political persuasions. And I say that as an unabashed Obama enthusiast—I backed his candidacy, was honored to be at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In this economy, the ticket is to find a job you love and master it</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2009/in-this-economy-the-ticket-is-to-find-a-job-you-love-and-master-it/</link>
		<comments>http://primegroupllc.com/2009/in-this-economy-the-ticket-is-to-find-a-job-you-love-and-master-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Schneiders</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Because this will be my last regular column in this space, I thought I’d use it to offer a little advice to young communications pros about to enter the toughest job market in recent memory.
Do what you love.
If it’s sports, music, cars, or cooking, look for a communications job in that field. If it takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inaugural Impressions</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2009/inaugural-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have lived in Washington, DC long enough to have celebrated, survived, witnessed or endured nine Presidential Inaugurations&#8212;Jimmy Carter (1977), Ronald Reagan (1981 and 1985), George H.W. Bush (1989), Bill Clinton (1993 and 1997), George W. Bush (2001 and 2005), and now Barack Obama.
January 20, 1977 was at once brilliantly sunny and bitterly cold&#8212;with snow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Both parties need to relearn civility and compromise</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2009/both-parties-need-to-relearn-civility-and-compromise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration just over a week away, one cannot help but wonder how the new president can accomplish the many changes he has proposed.
I worked in the Carter administration, which sometimes collided with a Congress of its own party over the nature and pace of change, so I am particularly interested in how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s actions up to this point speak even louder than his words</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2008/obama%e2%80%99s-actions-up-to-this-point-speak-even-louder-than-his-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Schneiders</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama might become the most eloquent US president in at least a generation. He knows that power words help to educate, inspire, and motivate. But if actions truly speak louder than words, it is important also to evaluate Obama as a non-verbal communicator. What do his actions during the campaign and the transition tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our leaders’ poor communication made a bad situation even worse</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2008/our-leaders%e2%80%99-poor-communication-made-a-bad-situation-even-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://primegroupllc.com/2008/our-leaders%e2%80%99-poor-communication-made-a-bad-situation-even-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Schneiders</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who practice crisis communications or advise others on the subject, the recent financial institution meltdown provided a particularly apt case study. It proved once again that, in a crisis, strategy, actions, and words all matter.
Strategy matters.
“Get it all out fast” is advice crisis advisers routinely offer business executives. Allowing a crisis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candidates’ VP choices are risky for their brands and reputations</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2008/candidates%e2%80%99-vp-choices-are-risky-for-their-brands-and-reputations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Schneiders</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Presidential campaigns can offer great lessons in brand management, and never more so than in the race between Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL). No two politicians have done a better job of brand management than these two. McCain’s brand is “experienced maverick” – 26 years in Congress, often taking on the leadership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain and presidential temperament</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2008/mccain-and-presidential-temperament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin&#8217;s nomination to be the Republican vice presidential candidate provoked, at first, a widespread &#8220;huh?&#8221; from pundits and voters. Today, we know that Palin can draw a crowd and can recite rehearsed, if often vacuous, lines effectively.
But maybe we should be focusing a bit less on the governor&#8217;s presence on the Republican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PR shares in blame for climate of fear that is gripping America</title>
		<link>http://primegroupllc.com/2008/pr-shares-in-blame-for-climate-of-fear-that-is-gripping-america/</link>
		<comments>http://primegroupllc.com/2008/pr-shares-in-blame-for-climate-of-fear-that-is-gripping-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Schneiders</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are terrorist groups like al Qaeda a “major threat” to the American people? According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 72% of Americans think so. Not surprising, since the Department of Homeland Security’s current “national threat level” is yellow, indicating a “significant risk of terrorist attack.” There should be a color-coded scale for the [...]]]></description>
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