When I got home I found, quite coincidentally, that I'd been sent an issue of a new journal called Attachment, which looks at what one psychotherapist has called the trauma of "the privileged" child in boarding-schools.
Robert Sims, senior vice president for magazine publishing at the National Geographic Society, said that it costs the society 24 cents to send a subscription issue out: the proposed increase could raise that to about 27.6 cents an issue.
Even if I couldn't find them on LinkedIn or Acme's website, I could pretend to be a customer with an issue, send an email to tech support and ask for an IT admin to call me.
"I sent an early issue of Areté to Kundera and was out of the house when I got a phone call saying there was a letter at home with his name and address on the back.
They listened as soon-to-be-furloughed junior staff members showed them how to send a news release, issue a proclamation and distribute daily reports of President Obama's activities.
Except for Spun.com, which offered an immediate credit, the others asked me to send in the CD's, whose value would be verified, and then would send a check or issue a credit, a process that generally takes two weeks.
They did, however, send a press release issued by the office in which the Senator criticized the stripping of his state's delegates.
They garner attention for an issue and send a clear and actionable message to the powers that be.
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