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...that analysts had guessed. The impression among investors who follow Boeing is that boneheaded management had allowed poor labor relationships and a slowdown in the launching of the company's new 777 flagship, which has been set back by well over year, to undermine the tremendous demand for the firm's planes...
...members of Congress who are overseeing the bailout funds question what spin doctors have to do with Liddy's stated mission. Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a Democrat on the House Oversight Committee that has investigated AIG, called the firm's p.r. payroll "a prime example of AIG misusing funds. Mr. Liddy should know, however, that all of the p.r. firms in the world will not distract us from getting to the bottom of what is really going on at AIG and how the company is spending taxpayer dollars...
...retained only one full-time p.r. firm when it ruled the insurance world. Today's four firms, said Ashooh, have different missions: Sard Verbinnen & Co. helps to structure statements on the bailout, Kekst & Co. focuses on sales of assets to pay back federal loans, Burson-Marsteller handles controversial issues and Hill & Knowlton fields inquiries from Capitol Hill and prepares congressional testimony for company officials. "If the criticism was we were running image-advertising or doing sponsorships to make ourselves look better, I could see that," Ashooh said. "But we're doing a lot of information-processing. It's really been...
...Last week, however, the p.r. team went on the attack. It came on the eve of ex-chairman Maurice (Hank) Greenberg's congressional testimony critical of the firm's current leaders and the bailout strategy. Reporters were given a document outlining Greenberg's role in creating a ruinous AIG unit and his 2005 ouster. A press release questioned why he should have "any credibility." Ashooh said the document was prepared internally, not by p.r. firms, and was intended to correct "misinformation" spread by Greenberg...
...Because of the fluidity of the market, it is fairly easy for a non-active female firm to suddenly become very active and participate in the market. But declining acceptance rates into Harvard hinder entry for the vast majority of outside female firms...