Universal Press Syndicate (UPS), a subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, was an independent press syndicate. It distributed lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and other content. Popular columns include Dear Abby, Ann Coulter, Roger Ebert and News of the Weird. Founded in 1970, it was merged in July 2009 with Uclick (which published its comics on GoComics) to form Universal Uclick[2] (now known as Andrews McMeel Syndication).

When Monica was appointed Assistant Treasurer of Time Inc in 1984,  she became the youngest officer of the world’s then largest media and entertainment company. Yet over the following couple of years, the company became vulnerable to takeover threats from other large corporations.  Monica shored up the defense of Time Inc by restructuring its balance sheet, quadrupling its borrowing capacity, assembling two groups of bankers - one domestic, one international -  issuing new corporate debt and hiring a roster of the most capable investment bankers of the day.  Time Inc then went on the prowl for acquisitions in the media.  One of the smallest of these was Universal Press Syndicate, which had promise in the digital arena. Monica also helped execute major acquisitions and divestitures: joint ventured Warner-Amex cable unit, bought magazine company, sold book unit, spun off forest products subsidiary Temple-Inland, took ATC public.

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