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“There’s a lot of chest-thumping about what a world-class ad center Los Angeles is. But I find that laughable. There simply isn’t the resources and professionalism in Los Angeles to the extent that there is in New York.”
--Richard Kelly,
president of the soon to be closed West Coast office of Scali, McCabe, Sloves, a New York advertising firm.
“We’ve taken off our shoes and we’re learning to make tea.”
--a female official at Union Bank in Los Angeles, alluding to concern about what working conditions for women will be like once the bank’s Japanese buyers take over.
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