Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was no way to know if the notes were an accurate account of what happened. On Tuesday the candidate confronted reporters who had staked out his driveway. He called Parkinson's version "an absolute, flat-out falsehood" and complained that he was suffering from "one bad rap after another." The encounter ended only when his wife Marilyn pulled him away from the TV cameras...
...advertising industry, small shops are thinking big these days. Fast- moving and feisty, the upstarts are luring a growing share of blue-chip accounts away from the Madison Avenue behemoths. While agencies like Manhattan's Young & Rubicam (1987 billings: $4.9 billion) and London's Saatchi ) & Saatchi ($4.6 billion) have tried to dominate the business by taking over competitors, firms less than one-tenth their size are attracting large ad accounts to such off-the-avenue cities as Boston and Minneapolis. In mid- August the Richards Group of Dallas ($97 million) snared the $15 million account for the Long John Silver...
...many clients, smaller agencies like San Francisco's Hal Riney & Partners ($200 million) are an excellent fit. Three years ago, the firm won an $800,000 advertising account for Calistoga, a Northern California bottled- water brand owned by Perrier. Riney's nostalgic soft-sell campaign, which now features a freckle-faced boy from 1920s-era California, helped boost sales 100% in three years. It also landed Riney the national account for Perrier in 1986, which is currently worth $20 million. The most impressive sign that small agencies have come into their own may be Riney's capture last...
That modest description fails to take into account the full range of her duties. In addition to her more routine responsibilities, such as leasing office space from Beijing to Boston, Davis has supervised the installation of our global computer system. "TIME was in the Dark Ages in 1984," she says. "Many correspondents were working on typewriters and sending their copy by wire." Now, thanks in no small part to training they received from her, they write on computers and use telephone lines to transmit their stories with the press of a key. "Some people take to it like a duck...
Martin's relationship with the Chronicle began two years ago, when the inmate sent an unsolicited article to Peter Sussman, editor of Sunday Punch, the paper's weekly features and commentary section. Sussman was impressed by the story -- a harrowing account of the indiscriminate sexual assignations of several AIDS-infected inmates -- and decided to run it. Soon Martin became a regular contributor, with a series of pointed and well-read pieces about life behind bars at Lompoc...