Gibson, a Cincinnati-based greeting-card company, lost $20.7 million as a result of the derivatives.

He also worked for a greeting-card company.

A disgruntled employee of a greeting-card company enters the sports bar with a machete, and massacres the crowd, sending the band to Heaven.

But it's not entirely the selfless organ that greeting-card companies make it out to be.

The bridegroom, 28, is also the founder of a greeting-card company in New York that bears his name.

And maybe the greeting-card companies, which are always looking for new occasions to tap our postal addiction, will compose a few million more messages - to Congress.

The greeting-card companies prefer not to comment on whether they are catering to a video-age inarticulateness.

Martha's homes, for one, have been reconstructed in her television studio - a 30,000-square-foot former greeting-card company in Westport, which became functional last year.

Gibson's lawsuit, which could have gone to a jury trial, was filed in Federal court in Cincinnati, where the greeting-card company is based.

His mother works at Lifelines/Barnett, which represents greeting-card companies.