Word: flushes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American companies are facing formidable competition from Tokyo's Dentsu (1985 billings: $3.62 billion) and London's Saatchi & Saatchi ($3 billion). Perhaps the most ravenous of all the advertising firms, Saatchi & Saatchi took over twelve companies last year. Flush with $600 million raised through a stock offering, Brothers Charles and Maurice Saatchi are prowling for more prey and are determined to build the world's largest agency. Doyle Dane Bernbach turned down a Saatchi offer before deciding to merge with BBDO and Needham; so far, Ted Bates has also ducked Saatchi's advances. Says Abbott Jones, president of the Chicago...
...Flush...
...FLUSH...
...FRIEND DESCRIBED Smooth Talk as the story of a 15-year-old girl in the first flush of her sexuality, which seemed like a compelling enough reason to see it--having been there myself. The film also happens to be based on a Joyce Carol Oates novella, another point to recommend it; and, in spite of its low $1 million budget, Smooth Talk managed to garner the Grand Prize at the U.S. Film Festival...
...what of the future of any little liberal arts college, broke or flush, in the day of M.B.A.s and corporate specialization? "Big corporations won't come to small liberal arts colleges to recruit," Ponder laments. "They want engineering students." Nonetheless, he has a plan: "We will call attention to our own, a person who can read, write, spell, think. You can teach him the technique of running your shop...