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Advertising has lived through Apocalypse Now for real and reckons he knows the difference" The Marketing Report named Ed "Outstanding Advertising Executive" in the United States in 1997. Vick played an instrumental role in bringing Y&R Inc public in 1998 and negotiating a 4.5 billion acquisition M&A with the British communications holding company
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511:"Four Decades Later, Local Vietnam Vets Step Out of Shadows"
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