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  • Broker Uses Conference to Publicize Suit

    In what amounts to throwing down a gauntlet, a list broker distributed copies of a lawsuit he filed against Dun & Bradstreet to the press attending the

  • The 1998 World PRO Awards of Excellence

    There was a smile for every lightbulb in the vaulted ceiling of the Grand Ballroom of Chicago’s Navy Pier. There, on the evening of October 6, some 500

  • Making Goals, Playing the Game

    Name any country you like, and if you’ve got a client that’s keen to sponsor football, there’s usually one style or another somewhere in the world that

  • Titles to Leaf Through

    Feeling misunderstood? Read a book.”Get Your Message Across: The Professional Communication Skills Everyone Needs” (Allen & Unwin, Chicago) promises to

  • Create-A-Crazy-Concept RESULT

    Okay, we’ll take some responsibility for this horror show. It was promo that stuffed the ammonium nitrate into the coffee can and proffered the fuse.

  • Overdrive

    When Kenny Loggins played “Footloose” at Camp Jeep this summer, Lou Bitonti couldn’t sit still. As merchandising manager for Chrysler Corp. division,

  • Scoring Points

    MyPoints Program (www. mypoints.com) from MotivationNet, L.L.C. announced it is adding 36 new partners to deliver the merchandise and and other awards

  • Flower Power Hour No Web Page of Love

    Let’s say that in a weak moment you’ve succumbed to the persistently charming ElectraGiz guy. You invite him into your space expecting the conventional

  • The Smell of Selling

    The National PTA has been criticized for selling its name and logo for use in back-to-school advertising by the office supply chain, Office Depot.Neither

  • Logging on the Law

    According to the French, the Austrians are “the politically correct cat’s paw of Germany.” Although peace may have broken out and the 15 member states