BT may not have known it, but the agency's creative director, David Adams, has inside knowledge of one of the company's best- known campaigns. THE ROYAL yacht Britannia will be decommissioned in 1997 and may not be replaced, and the Royal Family will pay for private use of the RAF Queen's Flight aircraft, the Ministry of Defence and Buckingham Palace announced yesterday. This was Sippenhaft, 'family responsibility', whereby everybody in the family was to be punished. Nor did he observe the unwritten rule of jazz: that you don't attack what you don't like, you just ignore it.He was like a diplomat who always says what he thinks, and as a result nobody took him seriously You have to join a gang in jazz to be taken seriously. The furniture chain Allied was found guilty yesterday of five charges of placing misleading advertisements between last December and March this year. Heavy capital spending, by Reuters' past standards, has not prevented net cash balances rising by pounds 207m to pounds 710m.Higher net interest, with hedging profits in 1992 offsetting the effects of lower interest rates, accounted for two-thirds of Reuters' pre-tax profits increase.Such financial strength allowed dividends to rise by 24.7 per cent last year, with a final of 15.9p, or twice as fast as the increase in earnings, taking cover below three times.But investors, however grateful for this, are keen to see Reuters deploy its cash in the business.

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