Word: pr
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Street location, everything goes in the trash. According to Dunkin’ Donuts PR rep Louise, who refused to give her last name, company policy explicitly forbids franchise owners from donating surplus food items. “If we don’t think it’s fit enough to sell to our paying customers,” she explains, “then we don’t want to insult people with food that we would throw away otherwise. And it’s not something that we would donate to people...
...With Roberts on the defensive, Republicans early last week launched a PR blitz about an "options" memo written by a Democratic aide which argued for delaying an "independent investigation" of the pre-war intelligence until Dems have pushed Roberts and his powers as chairman to the limit - which, conveniently, would likely be during next year's presidential election season. "We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the Administration's use of intelligence at any time," the memo read, "but we can only do so once." Roberts and other Republicans jumped on the memo, with some calling...
...Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's itinerary in Iraq was designed primarily as a PR exercise, intended to highlight the positive developments supposedly being overlooked by the media. But the men fighting the U.S. occupation from the shadows had a media agenda of their own, systematically spoiling Wolfowitz's PR party by a series of well-timed attacks on key locations and installations. Hours after Wolfowitz left Tikrit, insurgents using a rocket-propelled grenade downed a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter. Worse was to come: On Sunday, they fired a fusillade of rockets at the Baghdad hotel where Wolfowitz was staying...
...trained. The power supply is improving, and buyers and sellers in Iraq's lively marketplaces can now conduct their transactions with banknotes free of the scowling visage of the tyrant Saddam. That was the picture Deputy Defense Secretary had hoped to show a skeptical American media corps during a PR tour of Iraq last weekend, before insurgents made a mockery of his efforts by slamming rockets into his hotel in the most heavily-guarded part of Baghdad. But that attack, and the carnage wrought on Monday by four suicide bombers in the capital, underline a simple truth: The issue dwarfing...
...weekend, the routine is more complex: out comes the Earl mini (and with it, the Carriage House salon leg wax), the BCBG floaty, chiffon Grecian-style blouse and the teardrop pearl earrings her parents gave her upon graduation from Spence. In preparation for her high-flying career in PR, she recently founded yet another female final club which promises enriching service opportunities between garden party mixers at the Spee...