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l Words Kim Reynolds l Photographs Brian Vance<br />
every once in<br />
a while, an advertising<br />
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strikes a nerve. It makes<br />
you stop and glance up<br />
at the TV screen, or flip<br />
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to contemplate its meaning. For me, it’s<br />
usually a hair-loss treatment. However, for<br />
most people, it’s probably something that<br />
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good example of that in the car business<br />
recently has been the claim of<a title="90696_elite page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/00eb2b67?page=1"> T I L E EC RON CA Y REPR N ED ROM LL F I T </a>
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