Dunkin' Donuts to launch 99-cent menu in Chicago

Dunkin' Donuts said Friday it will launch a new 99-cent menu at 500 Chicago locations on Monday and hand out 20,000 gift cards pre-loaded with $2 each to lure customers.

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House taps foreign visitors for tourism program

How does the House figure to lure more international tourists to the United States? By charging those who visit $10 apiece.

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Minor league team sacks Tebow promotion night

A minor league baseball team has changed a Tim Tebow promotion after receiving a cease and desist e-mail from the University of Florida.

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Borders boosts discount for teachers to 25 percent

Borders Group Inc. on Monday said it has upped the discount for teachers on purchases at Borders and Waldenbooks.

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Rag trade: Buy replica jersey, get 2 tickets

Major League Baseball has a new rag trade promotion: Buy a replica jersey this season and receive two tickets.

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Google taps top UK ad exec to run US sales

Moving rapidly to fill a pivotal job, Google Inc. promoted a top advertising executive in Europe to oversee sales in the United States and neighboring markets that produce most of the Internet search leader's revenue.

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Orioles to give fans free birthday tickets

The Orioles are giving away birthday presents to fans — free tickets.

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Amateurs beat the pros in Super Bowl ads

When the makers of Doritos offered a promotion seeking Super Bowl ads from its customer base they offered two prizes. Each of five finalists got $25,000, but snack-maker Frito-Lay also promised $1 million if the ad chosen to run during the big game could beat Budweiser, Coke, CareerBuilder and the other traditional heavyweights in a prominent national ranking.

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'Monsters vs. Aliens' gets 3D Super Bowl promo

Talk about a monster of a promotion.

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A Century Later, Camel Gets a Makeover

The iconic Camel cigarette pack has undergone its first makeover since it hit store shelves almost a century ago, as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. tests new ways to market its biggest brands in a lagging market for smokes.

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Looking Beyond Late-Night for Plug Time

Whenever there's a movie, a CD, or a book to plug, even the most fickle stars become oh-so-bookable guests on late-night TV.

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Starbucks to Promote Climate-Change Film

Starbucks Corp. is planning a summer publicity blitz for "Arctic Tale," a movie about a walrus and a polar bear narrated by Queen Latifah, using posters and cup-holders that the company hopes will educate coffee drinkers about climate crisis.

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PETA Upset at Six Flags Roach Contest

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Six Flags Great America to scrap its Halloween-themed cockroach-eating promotion.

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Minor League Hockey Team Spoofs Cheney

A minor league hockey team plans to spoof Vice President Dick Cheney's recent hunting mishap by handing out orange hunting vests with the words, "Don't Shoot, I'm Human."

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Microsoft Corp. is going back in time to promote its new Windows 7 operating system.

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As reported on earlier, although TNA decided to replace Don West on the company's announce team with Taz (who will now join Mike Tenay from this point forward), he was kept on and given a promotion in TNA's marketing department.

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Just a few days ago, we let you all in on Best Buy's little experimental promotion to compete with GameStop — they were pricing their new game titles at the cost of a used copy of that same game.

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You would think two fire investigators in the Tampa Fire Marshal's Office are in the same boat, but one is in trouble and the other is moving up the ladder.

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I know some black women want to wear their hair natural, however, since they work in a corporate environment they tend to process their hair straight or wear a wig knowing that it could hold them back from promotions.

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Could Jackson Have Performed Awaited Concerts

Sources close to Michael Jackson said Friday that the "King of Pop" wouldn't have been physically capable of doing the 50 concerts he was scheduled to begin this summer, reports FoxNews.com.

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HIGH Street giants WH Smith were blasted yesterday for plugging a book on cellar monster Josef Fritzl as a FATHER'S DAY gift.

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Why women are still doing badly in the workplace (Poll)

The greatest myth pervading current intelligent thought is that women in Britain are now doing well; that they could not have it better. After all, they are getting more qualifications, more training, even more access to employment and, above all, getting the breaks in management.

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The Biggest Single Issue When Promoting Managers

According to a popular handbook for managers, a good manager motivates others by "encouraging ambition, the desire to achieve and a wish to contribute to the collective good of the business".

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Looks like Eminem successfully enlisted Nick Cannon to help promote his new album Relapse which is slated for a May 19 release.   Nick Cannon went on a rampage Friday when he heard Eminem's Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon diss track "Bagpipes From Baghdad." On the leaked song, Em …

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Oprah Winfrey is buying everyone 2 piece meal deal consisting of Free 2 Piece Grilled Chicken, 2 sides and a Biscuit. It was promoted on today show on Tuesday, May 5th 2009.

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New Haven's Fire Department administered an exam in 2003 for promotion to captain and lieutenant. A significant number of the 118 firefighters who took the test were black and Hispanic, but their pass rates were far lower than those of the white firefighters who took the test.

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Frank Ricci has been a firefighter here for 11 years, and he would do just about anything to advance to lieutenant.

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Excerpt: Twice a year before its pledge drive starts, local public radio station KRCC likes to offer members a thank-you gift for donating early. Sometimes it's symphony tickets. Sometimes it's museum passes. This time, it is squirrel underpants. Seriously.

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Bailout" was the magic word as Domino's had to give away thousands of free pizzas because someone stumbled on an online promotion the company scrapped.

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Excerpt: About 400 people have stripped off in London in order to win free flights in a stunt organised by Irish carrier Aer Lingus.

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Fox News aired a promotion for a broadcast of Hannity that falsely claimed: "[President] Obama pushes a plan that could force vets to pay through the roof for health coverage." In fact, the White House has stated it does not support a provision previously under consideration that …

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With today's economic challenges, it stands to reason there will be more businesses closing, shrinking, and laying off workers. How not to be one of them? Well, this quick set of five danger signs and suggestions to avoid them may be worth reviewing

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Xbox Live is widely regarded as the superior online service for this generation of consoles.

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The black-and-white video starts with a mini-van locked in the crosshairs and the sound of a missile launching. A ball of fire suddenly consumes the van and a palm grove somewhere in Iraq.

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LONDON, Feb. 4 -- A London restaurant said it has begun a monthlong promotion to allow customers to skip the bill and pay only what they feel their meal was worth.

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Burger King has come up with another hilarious marketing scheme: Remove ten Facebook friends, get a free Whopper. Once you ditch a friend, he gets a notice that he's been sacrificed for a free Whopper. So far, 55,739 friends have been sacrificed.

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The American Red Cross is starting the new year with a giving spirit. The organization has revived its "Live Life, Give Life" promotion, which will reward three donors with a pair of round-trip airline tickets on Delta Airlines.

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Cereal producers learned an important lesson: Children are suckers.

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Published on: www.pharmagossip.blogspot.com You Have Now Been Sampled While the pharmaceutical industry's image and reputation has and appears to continue to suffer, added damage has expressed itself with costly patent expirations with certain corporations within this indus …

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