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		<title><![CDATA[AMP Boss Reiterates Value of AXA Deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AMP Ltd chief Craig Dunn has not ruled out sweetening an $11 billion proposal to merge with AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd AXA APH, but says the deal is not vital to his company.The value of the insurer and wealth manager's joint offer to buy out AXA APH is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:07:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AMP, AXA APH Shares Up on Takeover Talks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2407-13071_23-363537.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ AMP Ltd shares jumped over four per cent on Tuesday on expectations the wealth manager and insurer itself could be the subject of a takeover.The development comes just days after the Australian group and Paris-based AXA SA made an $11 billion tilt for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd (AXA...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:21:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New York Airports Want Air Service Funds for a Bus and a Website (SCASDP Week)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I said that I would talk about creative Small Community Air Service Development Program SCASDP proposals this week, but I didn't say they'd all be good.  Apparently there's something strange going on in upstate New York, because two of the odder proposals have come from Ithaca and Albany. by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:31:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Sad Tale of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa (SCASDP Week)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/travel/10003633/the-sad-tale-of-the-manua-islands-in-american-samoa-scasdp-week/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when reading these Small Community Air Service Development Program SCASDP proposals, I can really get a sense of sadness or desperation from airports.  None has given me that feeling more than the proposal for the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa.  They're asking for so little yet the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:18:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Reasons Your Proposal Got Rejected]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=5632]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to book the big money deals, you'll probably have to write a sales proposal.Â  Needless to say, you want your proposal to win the business, rather than get thrown into the trash.Â  Here are the ten most common reasons that sales proposals get rejected out of hand...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five Tips on Compelling Business Proposals]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/09/15/five-tips-on-compelling-business-proposals/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In two separate meetings last week, senior executives told me of their frustration at not being able to gain traction with new business proposals aimed at their target customers. "I don't know why they don't get it," one of the executives said to me, "our ideas will really help them...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:58:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Health Care Reform: How It Affects You]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Different people will feel varying effects of the new health care reform proposal. MoneyWatch's Jill Schlesinger explains who will benefit, and who will pay more.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:56:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama's IRA Proposal: How to Make It Better]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/blog/retirement-roadmap/obamas-ira-proposal-how-to-make-it-better/1655/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tucked into the Obama financial reform package is a proposal to automatically enroll employees in IRAs if their employer doesn't have a retirement plan. It's a good initial idea, but it can be improved by equalizing the IRA and 401k contribution limits and removing the employer mandate from the plan....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:37:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama Sort Of Weasels Out Of Student Loan Proposal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/government/10002416/obama-sort-of-weasels-out-of-student-loan-proposal/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sallie Mae the government subsidized student loan provider had been facing a loss of revenue under an Obama Administration proposal to eliminate subsidizing private companies to make student loans.  Rather the government would return to the days where itself issued the loans.  Late last year the company had...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:04:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ryanair: Passengers As Baggage Handlers?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/travel/10002544/ryanair-passengers-as-baggage-handlers/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary suggested todayÂ that passengers should ferry their own luggage from airport to airplane -- but still pay Â£5 (about $8) per bag to place them in the hold. O'Leary said that getting rid of baggage handlers would help the budget airline save Â£26 million ($43 million)...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:05:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Everyone Is Right About Regulatory Reform]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/blog/financial-independence/why-everyone-is-right-about-regulatory-reform/173/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The President's proposed overhaul of financial regulation has to be doing something right because it seems to be making so many different people unhappy. Douglas Elliot, a fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution, calls the plan largely sensible, but worries that it's vulnerable to being watered down by interest groups...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:17:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[10 Rules for Writing a Winning Proposal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=3006]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're going to cut big deals, you're probably going to write some proposals.Â  A while back, I had a conversation with Tom Sant, probably world's top expert in helping sales teams to write better proposals.Â  Here are ten of his top rules for writing a winning proposal:  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 11:30:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Writing the Perfect Business Pitch | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/03/19/writing-the-perfect-business-pitch-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(22min 05) How do you write a pitch that will win the business? On today's BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Robyn Haydon, the author of "The Shredder Test --- the Australian Guide to Writing Winning Proposals".    You'll find the answers to common questions like:  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:56:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MRAP-ATV First Cut Made]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/government/1000791/mrap-atv-first-cut-made/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In December the U.S. Department of Defense accelerated a plan to buy lighter, more maneuverable MRAP vehicles.  The concept was to receive proposals in January and then reduce those down ultimately to two contenders who might win all or a part of the contract.  The program received several...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:22:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Proposal For Simplified EFC (Not EFC)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=973679]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This tool implements a proposal by Mark Kantrowitz for an extreme simplification of the federal need analysis methodology. It argues that if the loan repayment cap in the income-based repayment program is sufficient to evaluate ability to pay after a student graduates college, it should also be sufficient to evaluate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Proposal Favors Sunrise Powerlink, Over Environmentalists' Objections]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F107118-new-proposal-favors-sunrise-powerlink-over-environmentalists-objections%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Greentech Media submits:  A new proposal has emerged for a controversial, 150-mile transmission line project to carry electricity from power plants in the desert of southeastern California to the coast.  The proposal pdf, issued Tuesday, recommended by the president of the California Public Utilities Commission Michael R. Peevey,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[SCASDP Grants Have Been Awarded]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/travel/1000212/scasdp-grants-have-been-awarded/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the federal government awarded the SCASDP grants PDF that I had written about in July.  It appears that this might be the beginning of the end for the SCASD program, and that's a sad thing.  This program at least encourage creative thinking and expected results. by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:26:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Long Do I Wait To Follow-up?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=494]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When you're meeting with the prospect, the most important information you need to find out is how the prospect buys the kind of product or service you're selling.  You need to know how the paperwork flows, who the decision-makers are, how they make the decision, how long it typically...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:30:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Elko Applies to SCASDP for More Service to Reno]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm calling this "SCASDP Week" here at BNET Travel.  Yeah, it doesn't have much of a ring to it, but I promise it's more interesting than it sounds.  What, never heard of SCASDP before?  That's the federal government's Small Community Air Service Development Program, and it allows...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:33:45 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Write a Winning Sales Proposal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=374]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    If your business model involves complex sales proposals, you know how difficult it can be to get the writing process started.  Here's a trick from the uber-guru of proposals, Tom Sant,  author of Persuasive Business Proposals.    Before you and your teams...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:30:58 -0700</pubDate>
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