Publicity that would attract students depended mostly on word of mouth but brochures promoting the school were also used.

A few months ago, the department began circulating a brochure promoting New York as "the ultimate retirement city."

A brochure promoting the book says it "offers test-taking practice in multiple-choice formats, identical to those on the New York State Program Evaluation Test."

Visitors could pick up brochures promoting Long Island attractions and find someone to answer questions year round.

Two walks brochures promoting the series of walks prepared within the village.

And it will soon mail 10,000 brochures promoting fall and winter events, from big-band dances to string-band performances to "The Nutcracker."

In New Hampshire, the Bush campaign is sending out a brochure promoting the administration's regulations to reduce air pollution.

In the lobby of the hotel where the bishops met, a former priest passed out brochures promoting a married priesthood.

So Mr. McGill dutifully prints glossy brochures promoting an ever-growing list of newly available - i.e., abandoned - industrial buildings.

At Kent State University in Ohio, the business school hired a marketing firm for the first time to produce a glossy brochure promoting its business school.