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CANNON’S VALENTINE TO NEW ORLEANS What a wonderful column about New Orleans (Loose Cannon, Oct. 15). In all the coverage of the disaster, I haven’t read

LONG BEFORE GAS PRICES STARTED HITTING A HIGH NOTE, I impulsively bought a hybrid car. Looks like I’ll soon have lots of company. The Economic News reports

IF YOU EVER DARED TO strike up a conversation with an insurance salesman, he might introduce you to a basic tenet of his business: Life insurance can’t

John Greco is a presidential history buff. But he’s getting carried away with himself. He apparently thinks he is president of the United States, and

More and more customers are buying products over the Web and picking them up at a store. Although in-store operations have improved considerably in the

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE CLAMOR FOR ATTENTION gets more and more strident? Right! Promises, claims, approvals and assurances get wilder and wilder. Just

Oct. 19, 2005 The DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION’S revenue and expenses in fiscal 2004-2005 were both slightly up from last year, while revenue from meetings

Visa USA today breaks its holiday sweepstakes with its biggest-ever prize pool for a fourth-quarter promo. The Visa $1.5 Million Holiday Giveaway dangles a grand-prize of $250,000 and, for the first time, 50,000 prizes of $25 each. Cardholders are …

Sony Pictures Consumer Products is backing the upcoming release of Zathura: A Space Adventure with a team of licensees and an online sweepstakes with Discovery Channel Stores for a chance to win a grand-prize trip to space camp. Licensees are already in …

4Kids Entertainment has joined forces with PEZ Candy, Inc. for a multi-month promotion featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in which consumers can enter a sweepstakes to win tickets to a U.S. Hot Road Monster Jam event. Consumers enter …