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Thankfully, not every toy fad turns kids into knife-wielding, classmate-beating, larceny-committing fiends. Pokemon does, as anyone who has read a newspaper

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What’s in a name? You decide.Nine-year-old Opus Marketing has changed its name, it says, to broaden its focus from an event-marketing shop to an agency

There’s nothing like a little corporate synergy to make a promotion really sing.Ford Motor Co. used a tie-in with Columbia TriStar’s Dawson’s Creek TV