PR Newswire Broadcast Minute & Podcast for Wednesday, November 29, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute & Podcast for Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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After Mid-Term Elections, President Bush's Job Approval Drops

The voters have spoken and as Congress prepares for leadership changes in January, Americans continue to voice their disapproval of President George W. Bush with his performance ratings trending downward. This month, just 31 percent have a positive view of his job performance while 67 percent have a negative view. This is down from last month when 34 percent had a positive view and 63 percent had a negative view. In fact, this is the second-lowest job performance number for President Bush that Harris Interactive has found. The lowest was in May, 2006 at 29 percent positive.

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Emmy Award(R)-Nominated Drama 'Grey's Anatomy' Joins Lifetime Television on Sunday, January 7 at 11PM (ET/PT) Beginning With Series' First Season

Beginning January 7, the doctors at Seattle Grace Hospital will be making weekly house calls at Lifetime Television every Sunday night at 11PM, starting with the first season of the popular Emmy Award-nominated drama series "Grey's Anatomy." The top-rated show on all of primetime broadcast television this season, "Grey's Anatomy" focuses on young interns struggling to be doctors and doctors struggling to stay human. It's the drama and intensity of medical training mixed with the funny, sexy, painful lives of interns who are about to discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white.

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They'd Better Watch Out... New Consumer Survey Indicates that Retailers Need to Be Nice, Not Naughty; Treat Shoppers the Right Way this Holiday Season

With the pressures of holiday gift-giving upon us, American consumers say they'll punish retailers that are naughty when it comes to service -- and spend more with the nice ones.

More than three out of five Americans -- 62 percent -- say they won't make future purchases from a store or service provider with whom they have a bad customer service experience this holiday season. Meanwhile, the vast majority of people -- 82 percent -- say they'll spend more money leading up to the holidays where they receive better customer service. That's according to a random-digit-dial survey of more than one thousand Americans commissioned by Katzenbach Partners.

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Survey Finds Employers Are Doing the 'Ride Thing' During the Holiday Season

What's the best way to impress the boss during office holiday parties? It's not by belting out your favorite song during the karaoke competition. According to a new survey, 65 percent of Americans believe that being the designated driver is the best way to win points with the boss, while only 7 percent said that singing a favorite holiday song would do the trick. As companies around the country plan their holiday events, the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety and Anheuser-Busch encourage employers to make sure their employees get home safely after the festivities. The survey, conducted by Data Development Worldwide, also found that 71 percent of Americans say their employer uses at least one of four ways to assure employees get home safely from holiday office parties: encouraging the use of designated drivers, offering plenty of food, serving alcohol responsibly or offering free safe rides home.

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PRNewswire -- Nov. 29

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