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Presents a speech delivered by J. Edward Hill, M.D., chairman of the board of trustees at the American Medical Association. Delivery of the speech to the Texans Standing Tall Fifth Annual Summit in Austin, Texas on July 19, 2002; Need to protect against underage drinking.

Features three advertising agencies in Texas. Status used by GSD&M to snatch blue-chip accounts; Sort of reverse evolution experienced by Temerlin McClain; Award-winning advertising campaigns created by Richards Group.

Deals with the results of GSD&M company's business strategy on the advertising agency's business performance in Austin, Texas in 1999. Value of its Dreamworks SKG media buying account; Recruitment of media negotiator Betty Pat McCoy as the agency's vice president and director of national broadcast; Estimate percentage increase on its revenues.

Reports the consolidation between Sara Lee Corp. and Publicis in Dallas, Texas. Move following the acquisition of The Earthgrains Co.; Reference to the branding capabilities of Publicis; Role of Publicis on the business of Sara Lee.

Reports the 30th anniversary celebration of the advertising agency GSD&M in Austin, Texas. Founders of the company; Reaction of the founders on the surprise given by the employees of the agency.

Reports the television advertising released by Giant Eagle Inc. featuring vignettes set in the home of the people in Dallas, Texas. Explanation on the switch of focus by the company from grocery store to kitchen setting; Details on each television commercial of Giant; Budget for advertisement spending per year.

Features the advertising campaign for BMW AG by Publicis Mid-America in Dallas, Texas. Description of the three television advertisements; Goal of the campaign; Concept of the campaign.

Reports the closure of Bozell Kamstra and SixtyFootSpider advertising agencies in Dallas, Texas. Confirmation of Bozell on the closure; Plans for SixtyFootSpider clients; Losses of Bozell in November.

Relates the decision of advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather to close its Dallas, Texas office following the loss of the Verizon account. Number of employees affected by the closure.

Reports that the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) is looking for an agency to create a consumer-education campaign promoting the opening of the state's energy market to alternative providers in 2002. One of the largest contract in the states for a government entity; Funding amount of the project; PUC's search for an integrated campaign.

Reports on Tom Moudry's appointment as vice president and senior creative director of San Antonio, Texas-based telecommunications firm SBC Communications as of May 8, 2000. Career background; Company's plan to review its advertising account.

Highlights the unveiling of Austin, Texas-based advertising agency GSD&M's radio and print campaign along with the relaunching of `Us Weekly' magazine. Weekly topical theme for the magazine; Weekly generation of creative work for the agency; Amount spent for the relaunch of the magazine.

Reports on the appointment of Patrick Cunningham as executive creative director for advertising agency BBDO Houston. Advertising campaigns handled by Cunningham during his stint with N.W. Ayer & Partners; Aims of BBDO to improve its profile; Client roster; Other appointments in support of the agency's plans; Background on transition undertaken; Personal & professional profile of Cunningham.

Reports on the addition of creative principals, Mike Fazende and Richard Crispo at the Dallas, Texas creative team of the advertising agency Publicis in Mid America. Other creative principal at the agency; Comments from Ted Barton, the agency's president of creative about Fazende and Crispo; Work experience of Fazende and Crispo.

Reports that the Dallas Advertising League awarded its top prizes to Ackerman McQueen Inc. and DDB Inc. at the club's TOPS ceremony in 2002. Winners in the consumer category; Agencies that were honored with special judges awards.

Reports on the closure of Gleason/Calise/Associates in Dallas, Texas. Reason for the closure; Resignation of executives from the company; Plan of Calise to buy out Gleason's stake in the business.

hFocuses on the merger of McCann-Erickson with the Temerlin McClain advertising agency in Dallas, Texas. Executives at the merged agency; Combined client roster of the merged agency.

Reports on the changes in the advertising campaign of Giant Eagle in Dallas, Texas. Overview of the advertisement; Amount invested for the advertisement; Strategy employed by Richards Group on the advertising campaign of Giant Eagle.

Reports on the partnership between advertising agent Todd Tilford and designer John Norman to form the image consulting group Tilford:Norman in Dallas, Texas. Work experiences of Tilford and Norman; Awards won by the agent and designer; Clients of the advertising consultant firm.

Focuses on Texas advertising agencies to be competed by Suissa Miller in Los Angeles, California, in the finals of the review for the advertising account of Dial Corp. Value of the advertising account; Clients of Suissa Miller; Details on Dial Corp.

Reports on the fashion advertisements for the garage door opener of Overhead Door Corp. in Dallas, Texas. Commentaries on the airing of the ads; Focus of the ads campaign; Schedule of the airing of the ads.

Focuses on the advertising campaigns in Dallas, Texas. Popularity of local campaigns during tough economic times; Use of images of historic figures in advertising; Creation of the campaign titled 'Significant Other.'

Provides information on the awards given to Liener Temerlin by the Dallas Ad League during the second annual Ad Roast in 2001. Information on the photographs taken by Ross Perot of Temerlin; Comments from Neiman Marcus' Stanley Marcus.

Highlights the second annual Ad Roast of the Dallas Ad League which cheered Temerlin McClain's chairman Liener Wiener Temerlin. Features of the event; Purpose of the proceeds.

Focuses on the outdoor advertising campaign designed created by Sherry Matthews Advertising & Public Relations for the Texas Department of Transportation. Description of the campaign; Target demographic of the campaign; Location site of the outdoor campaign.

Announces the closure of the office of the advertising agency Leo Burnett Technology Group (LBTG) in Austin, Texas, in May 2001. Reason for the closure; Revenue of LBTG in Austin in 2000; Other offices of the agency that were closed in 2001.

Reports the plan of Temerlin McClain, an advertising agency in Irving, Texas, to cut its staff. Estimated number of layoffs; Reason for the layoffs; Details on the revenue lost by the agency in 2000.

Reports on the advertising account review for the Children's Health Insurance Program in Texas. Information on the funding for the advertising account; Value of the advertising account; Advertising agencies vying to secure the account.

Reports on the selection of John Duban as the president and chief executive officer of Grey Advertising's office in Fort Worth, Texas. Change in the business name of the agency to Grey Worldwide: Dallas/Fort Worth; Positions held by Duban in the company prior to his promotion; Advertising clients of the agency in the United States.

Focuses on the television advertisement created by Anderson Marketing Group of San Antonio for Taco Cabana, a dining chain in Texas. Tagline used; Advantage of the dining chain from other restaurants; States and cities in the United States where the television advertisement will be broadcast.

Reports on the lack of support by Texas lawmakers to a proposed legislation of Representative Debra Danburg on an outdoor advertising tax in the state. Campaign efforts of the advertising community members against the bill; Importance of the bill for the Texas Department of Transportation.

Reports on some rebranding changes at Dallas, Texas-based Black-Eyed Pea Restaurants brought about by management reorganization in Phoenix Restaurant Group. Advertising agency affiliation; Customer targets; Slogan of the restaurant.

Reports that Alexander Ogilvy Public Relations has closed its office in Dallas, Texas. Clients of the company in the city; Reason for the closure.

Provides information on the advertising campaigns created by the company Square One for the March 2001 Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. Sponsors of the festival; Concepts of the campaign created.

Reports on the decision of Bozell Kamstra agency to close its office in Texas due to the loss of its business from the United States Air Force. Estimated worth of the account; Alternative plans of Bozell Kamstra; Reasons for the difficulty of getting a business.

Reports that BBDO has won the estimated $2-4 million advertising account of Southwest Bank of Texas (SBT). Contenders for the advertising account; Business plans of SBT; Major clients of BBDO in Texas.

Focuses on the recruitment of Chris Bryan to establish Wanamaker Associates advertising consultancy in Dallas, Texas. Reasons for recruiting Bryan; Career background of Bryan; Why Dallas was chosen as the location of the firm.

Provides information on the recruitment of several former Berry-Brown Advertising employees by Texas-based Fogarty Klein Monroe agency. Appointment of Jim Hradecky, Sharon Griesing, Steve Smith and Alison Hannay; Embezzlement scandal experienced by Berry-Brown Advertising agency.

Reports on the advertising campaign accounts acquired by WarrenCordes+ company in Austin, Texas.

Focuses on the plan of Ogilvy & Mather company to close its Dallas, Texas office in early 2001 following the loss of its Verizon Wireless business. Details on the duties of Ogilvy for Verizon; Remaining clients of the office; Implication of the closure.

Focuses on the executives who attended the party hosted by Roy Spence, president of advertising agency GSD&M, in October 2000 in Austin, Texas. Highlights of the event.

Focuses on the decision of the Texas Public Utility Commission to hire Burson-Marsteller as the company that will lead their effort to educate consumers about the state's deregulated energy market. Other partners of Burson-Marsteller; Challenges faced by the company.

Reports on the selection of Fellers Marketing and Advertising agency to handle advertising and public relations for Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. Budget for the account; Description of the museum.

Reports that SBC Communications has secured naming rights for the planned arena in San Antonio, Texas. Name of the arena; Total money paid by SBC for the rights; Where the proceeds from the sponsorship will be used.

Reports on the review of the advertising account of Austin, Texas-based Hoovers Online. Value of the account; Information on the finalists of its agency search; Description of the autumn 1999 advertising campaign of the company.

Announces the appointment of Billy J. Payton as president of retail practice and senior vice president of Dallas, Texas-based promotional agency Brierley & Partners. His career and professional background; His responsibilities at Brierley & Partners; Executive to whom Payton will report to.

Provides information on the support extended to Witherspoon & Associates advertising agency after the tornado on March 28, 2000 in Forth Worth, Texas, had wrecked the agency's building. How Carol Glover, the agency's art director, saved herself from the tornado.

Reports that Gordon Law has decided to leave Hadeler Sullivan and Law to become general manager of Bozell Kamstra in Austin, Texas. Reasons behind his decision; Why Bozell opened an advertising agency in Austin.

Reports on the entry of Carat North America, an independent media agency, into the Dallas, Texas market. Role of Carat's reorganization in its entry to the Dallas market; Reasons behind the move according to John Barnes, executive vice president and managing director for Carat in Los Angeles, California; Vice president and account director appointed to the Dallas office.

Describes the advertisements featuring actual cancer survivor created by Richards Group for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Details on the campaigns; Statement issued by Richards' co-creative director and art director Jeff Hopfer.