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Dishing it out

[Times photo: Dirk Shadd]
Satellite TV services used to have just a small bite of the market. But now cable is fighting to keep its portion.

Target floats a new kind of store
Jacksonville plans to tie up some cruise ships as floating hotels when it hosts the 2005 Super Bowl. So does Tampa if it wins its bid to house the 2004 GOP convention. Now Target Corp. is turning a big excursion boat into a makeshift store for midtown Manhattan.

Ethics code: They'll drink to that
The giant pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC treated a dozen local doctors to free food and wine earlier this month at a waterfront restaurant in St. Petersburg. But don't call it a cocktail party.

From health care to paintballs, company a moving target
Pity the shareholders of Access Health Alternatives Inc.

Sharing the good news about nudes
When the nation's parks and recreation executives staged their convention in Tampa recently, trade show booths were staffed by more than people peddling tennis nets, teeter-totters and tether balls.

Ad's 'gravy' has a few lumps
The turkey is free," SunTrust Banks promises in newspaper ads. "The interest is gravy."

Climbing the ladder
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Profile: Jay Martin
NEW POSITION: Executive director, American Victory Mariners Museum and Memorial, Tampa

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