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Accompanying the Budget are dozens of departmental information kits; the material is produced by public servants. News of tax changes, family payments or recent modifications to Medicare will be disseminated via government advertising campaigns. The federal government spent $A78 million on advertising in 2003, making it the fifth biggest spender in the country (wedged between Nestl? and Harvey Holdings). Labor says the government has spent $A650 million since 1996 on taxpayer-funded advertising. Running the country, of course, means placing employment ads, recruiting military personnel and explaining administrative changes. But it also provides tremendous strategic opportunities for getting...
...SPENDER Ovitz racked up $6.3 million in "business expenses," other documents show, including $2 million for office remodeling, $6,100 for a home X-ray machine and $812 for breakfast with the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...world of deferred accountability that monthly bills allow (a world sadly populated by the all-too-adult specter of Debt). That there is actually very little that needs to be purchased during termtime, particularly given the required meal plan, is a fact conveniently overlooked by the serial spender. I can testify to many a joyful afternoon whiled away my first year among the aisles of CVS opposite the Yard, entering the store under the ostensible purpose of buying a toothbrush or other inarguably essential product, and leaving with bags of entirely frivolous drugstore-related goodies, particuarly those in gimmicky packaging...
...Matsui hunt, seven-the Mariners, Red Sox, Yankees, Anaheim Angels, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets-have strong working relationships with Tellem. The other two, the Chicago Cubs and the San Francisco Giants, are long shots. Neither is known as a big free-agent spender...
...Macedonians, Harvard and Oxford are the most famous universities in the world,” says Veljkovik. “I am really impressed with the opportunities here, by all the pamphlets handed out for everything—I think Harvard must be the biggest spender of paper in the world...