this week's contents are

- Trade Event: Beverage Digest Wall Street Smarts: Analysis of Pepsi's Marketing, + + + + +

- Opinion: Since When Did Blatant Bribing Become Marketing?

- Trade Event: Bear Stearns Tech Conference 2004, + + + +

- Trade Event: Merrill Lynch 2004 Transportation Conference: Airline Costs, + + + + +

- Trade Event: Prepaid Markets Expo 2004, + + +

- Opinion: What Manager Proves His Worth In Only 4 Years? Why I'm Voting For Bush

- Management: Proposal on Creating a New Class of Non-Voting Stock Exclusively for Traders

- Research: Employers Are Overworking and Not Appreciating Their Workers

- Management: The Impacts on Your Business of Increasing the Minimum Wage, Withholding Medical Benefits, and Implementing a Two-Tier Compensation

- Research: Static Online Communities and How to Leverage for Cost Effective Data Acquisition

- Opinion: WPP's Purchase of Grey Will Kill What Made it Special - Simplicity

- Media: How Cable Networks Can Build A Consumer Database: A Q&A with Al Berrios, Managing Director, al berrios & co.


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