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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pacelli, Lonnie.
 The truth about getting your point across… and nothing but the truth / Lonnie Pacelli.
    p. cm.
 ISBN 0-13-187371-7
 1. Business communication. I. Title.
 HF5718.P33 2006
 658.4'5—dc22
                            2005017812