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Closing Time
New York is about to lose a 100-year-old landmark. Blumberg Excelsior, a legal supplies retailer located near the city’s World Trade Center, plans to
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Uni-Mail, Unable to Hold on After Terrorist Attacks, Closes Down
Uni-Mail List Corp., located just four blocks from the World Trade Center, closed its doors forever eight business days after its lower Manhattan offices
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An Award-Winning Idea
VISUALIZE THIS SCENARIO assuming you haven’t already. Have you ever visited an advertising agency, direct response consultancy or major direct marketer
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A Hero’s Death
THERE ARE FEW opportunities for heroism in the direct marketing industry. But Jeremy Glick, who died on United Airlines Flight 93 Sept. 11, was a hero
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Chicago Hope
EXACTLY 20 YEARS AGO, I was sitting in a Midtown New York office, watching coverage of the Sadat assassination. A Jamaican-Jewish named Peggy Silver said,
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DO the right thing
WHETHER YOUR BUSINESS is an old-school print catalog or a virtual age dot-com, the concerns are the same: how to function profitably with a smaller marketing
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Movin’ Out
A BITTER FIGHT over control of A Moving Experience, a marketer of new-mover lists, is being played out in a Las Vegas court. Whoever wins, it’s clear
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Back to School
FUNNY THING about teachers: They want their teaching aids shipped before the school year starts. Delta Education wasn’t passing that test, and that’s
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A Friend Indeed
IN THE ULTIMATE ACT of friendship, one Blue Cross/Blue Shield employee stayed with a handicapped co-worker to wait for help as 1 World Trade Center burned.