Article: The spin rift. (Rockett Burkhead Lewis and Winslow)(Company Profile)

In a business where image is everything, Rockett Burkhead gets thrust into a situation where it can't shape its own.

The colorful Piedmont landscape peeks in the fifth-floor windows of Rockett Burkhead Lewis & Winslow's north Raleigh offices on this cool autumn day. But in Chairman and CEO Howard Rockett's office, closed blinds shut out the leafy view, and the atmosphere is downright chilly.

Hasn't this been a trying year, he is asked. "Absolutely not," shoots back the co-founder of the state's third-largest advertising agency. "Where did you get that idea?"

As new president Bill Youngclaus launches into a diatribe about an uninformed press that has ...

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