- Just who is this jerk, Rick Scott of propaganda-mongering Conservatives for Patients’ Rights? He and his group are fabricating negatives about Canada’s health care system and I resent this. I am an American who has lived in Canada for more than 35 years. I can vouch that the system is more than adequate and is not run by civil servants but by doctors who are able to treat everyone, rich or poor.
- In Milan Kundera's brilliantly mordant new novel, "Immortality," the author's persona explains: "No novelist is dearer to me than Robert Musil. He died one morning while lifting weights. When I lift them myself, I keep anxiously checking my pulse, and I am afraid of dropping dead, for to die with a weight in my hand like my revered author would make me an epigone so unbelievable, frenetic and fanatical as immediately to assure me of ridiculous immortality."
- A new idea may take you in a new direction. But growth, much like success, must be planned and fostered – generated through strategic, creative thinking and purposeful action. Below are a sampling of companies that sought both change and progress. They began ANEW…
- In the spring of 2008, Microsoft made a $47.5 billion hostile offer to buy Yahoo after on-and-off talks about a merger had led nowhere. After a bruising, four-month battle, Microsoft abandoned the offer. Anger among Yahoo shareholders led to a management change and the replacement of its co-founder Jerry Yang by Carol Bartz, an outsider who is now Yahoo's chief executive. On July 29, 2009, the two companies announced a more limited deal, a partnership in Internet search and advertising on Wednesday morning intended to create a stronger rival to the industry powerhouse Google.
- Creative advertising concepts and marketing strategies evolve naturally in an environment of mutual trust and respect…of constructive give and take. “Chemistry” is what it’s called in our business, and when the chemistry is good the work that results is even better.
From offices that overlook a nature preserve on suburban Long Island, just outside of New York City, we maintain the kind of relaxed but focused atmosphere that stimulates interaction and creativity…between ourselves and with our clients. A full-service advertising agency, SMM develops strategic advertising campaigns for consumer, business-to-business, institutional and recruitment accounts.
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Blog Book. - Tim has 30+ years of progressive marketing and advertising experience. He is a results-focused leader who guides the L+A team in developing sharp marketing strategies for a wide range of clients. Prior to joining L+A, Tim held senior management positions with Lintas: Campbell-Ewald, DDB Needham Worldwide, BBDO New York, as well as President/CEO of his own communications company, Abramson Labus Van De Velde in Washington, D.C. In addition to current L+A clients, his expertise encompasses nearly 25 years of developing successful youth branding initiatives reaching high school and college students for GEICO Auto Insurance, as well as military recruitment programs for the National Guard Bureau and the United States Navy. Tim is past chairman of the United Negro College Fund Sports Gala and Fundraising Program.
