That knack for salesmanship could translate to the car business.
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Upon delivery of the finished portrait, the salesmanship began anew.
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Breakingviews Amazon's aggressive salesmanship now extends to its own debt.
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But all that earnest salesmanship had just made beans seem unappetizing.
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That wouldn't be unlike his unique and successful brand of salesmanship.
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It's a different kind of salesmanship, but the effect is the same.
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When news organizations catch on to the snake-oil salesmanship, he attacks.
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Despite the clever salesmanship, Mr. Xi is over-promising and under-delivering.
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This devotion isn't just salesmanship, either: Dedication to Faidley's borders on the illegal.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Amazon's aggressive salesmanship now extends to its own debt.
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What does his impressive salesmanship mean for India, the region, and the world?
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That same type of salesmanship gone too far can get you into trouble.
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And yet there's something poignant about the salesmanship, something uncanny but almost sweet.
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For all his salesmanship and cheerleading, he remains a troubling and divisive figure.
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Improved technology and salesmanship should help First Data generate more revenue, Barron's said.
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Extra value was attached to salesmanship and scheming, two of Trump's own principal traits.
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We have been governed for too long by fear and low aim and salesmanship.
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"First, unearth the truth in a market filled with lies and salesmanship," he said.
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And the people who worked for Insys seemed to revel in their own salesmanship.
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Now is when Mr. Trump's much ballyhooed salesmanship skills could really come in handy.
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It requires skill, a degree of salesmanship, negotiation and some good old-fashioned luck.
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But the force he brings to salesmanship obscures the diffidence he brings to governance.
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The lines between salesmanship, hucksterism, and demagoguery have always been very blurry with Trump.
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Maybe Oprah's find-that-woman-inside-shtick is unvarnished honesty, or maybe it's savvy salesmanship.
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" (Page 30)On salesmanship: "Make the customer think he's getting laid when he's getting fucked.
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Instead they have used salesmanship and buzzwords to insist a muddled argument is crystal clear.
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The federal government, which would rather pay for better care than for salesmanship, wants change.
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Mr. Musk is well known for his salesmanship, and used it liberally in promoting Autopilot.
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Now he's all-in, giving motivational speeches about salesmanship and taking up country line dancing.
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"He has sometimes used colorful language and has been prone to 'salesmanship,'" the statement said.
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Far from mere salesmanship, the guarantee appears to have been a factor in the contract.
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The job has even given Perry an opening to put his salesmanship skills to use.
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But I also don't have that level of salesmanship; I'm not that good of an actor.
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It was as much a reflection of boisterous salesmanship as it was of Uber's public prospects.
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In an interview with HuffPost, Ettel explained that she became frustrated by the girl's persistent salesmanship.
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The fate of the Republican health bill in the House could rest on President Donald Trump's salesmanship.
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There's a salesmanship to Bo. And then there is the up-close-and-personal faux-empathetic aspect.
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President Trump has the guts, but so far hasn't shown the salesmanship skills to pull it off.
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Mr. Parscale, now 44, was a small-time San Antonio web entrepreneur with a gift for salesmanship.
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You're supposed to have much more time for editing and production and salesmanship and pre-publicity, pre-marketing.
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" There is "far more money made by people in Wall Street through salesmanship abilities rather than investment talent.
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"Diddy came on and he applied his typical marketing panache and his shock-and-awe salesmanship," Greenburg said.
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Yet he was remarkably deft at the cajoling, salesmanship and favor-trading that a private member's bill required.
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But this is not a moment for mere salesmanship, for conjuring a cheerful vision rather than facing reality.
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The firm grew rapidly, employing hundreds of people around the world, thanks largely to Mr. Naqvi's relentless salesmanship.
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And the fact that the Trump WH doesn't do normal salesmanship/policymaking, bc incompetence, is an insufficient excuse.
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What's important in politics is likability, salesmanship––David said he can sell anything to anybody, run in any circle.
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Sater previously told BuzzFeed News that his emails amounted to salesmanship, and the whole Trump Moscow project ultimately fizzled.
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But the President is authentically excited about tax reform, so we'll see if his salesmanship is more effective here.
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He would jolt it awake with salesmanship, and by pitching it to a huge pool of middle-class investors.
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The mayor will need to summon all of his salesmanship skills to sell what looks like a sensible plan.
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On his home turf in the villages of the Chikkamagaluru district in Karnataka, his salesmanship is put to the test.
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There's a whiff of Hollywood salesmanship too in the way Rader positions the pair as a kind of Bette vs.
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They weren't the underdogs, hungry for even a modicum of success, where his P. T. Barnum-esque salesmanship sold well.
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The company was founded, in 20123, by Mark Hughes, a high-school dropout with a talent for storytelling and salesmanship.
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"He has sometimes used colorful language and has been prone to 'salesmanship,'" Cohen said in a statement to The Times.
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Whether on "The Apprentice" or pushing his NAFTA replacement, you have to admit Trump has a flair for salesmanship. 19893.
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His debut was Glengarry Glen Ross, James Foley's adaptation of David Mamet's legendary play about capitalism, desperation, and real estate salesmanship.
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From the costume shop to the first curtain call, here's how the steps and stories, the stitches and salesmanship come together.
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Indeed, the first rule of salesmanship is that the pitchman must believe in his product with every fiber of his being.
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"You just wait to see what we do," he teased a crowd of hotel executives, channeling his father's flair for salesmanship.
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In effect, the banks allowed Mr. Trump to remain solvent so that they could get the benefit of his gift for salesmanship.
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At Trump Tower, Mr. Sewani patterns his salesmanship style after Mr. Trump's own, bargaining with customers and talking them into bigger purchases.
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That's some fine irony: Blake's paean to salesmanship was written to satisfy salesmen who did not quite buy David Mamet's original pitch.
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It's cruelty on a Grand Guignol scale, both in Trump's heartless tweets and in his mindless salesmanship of the Republicans' heartless budget.
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Indeed, while profoundly unqualified and unsuited for the presidency in most ways, Mr. Trump does grasp the salesmanship part of the job.
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When he returns to a version of the same guy on the job for a while, he has learned nothing except more salesmanship.
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The lack of presidential salesmanship on the most important item on the GOP agenda has baffled -- and frustrated -- several Republican members of Congress.
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But despite Powers' crafty salesmanship, he didn't care for the details of financial bookkeeping and often left bills unpaid and bank statements unopened.
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You can attribute some of that to the connections and salesmanship that Iovine brought to Apple as it courted artists for the new service.
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Amazon has endured persistent pressure — including from its own shareholders — for its aggressive salesmanship of its facial Rekognition system to law enforcement agencies. Rep.
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But at its very core, "One Thousand Ways" is about how creativity, excellent salesmanship, hard work and resourcefulness can earn you buckets of money.
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A master of glass-encased towers and monumental entrances, both hallmarks of Trump's properties, Fotiadis supplied vision and technical expertise that complemented Trump's salesmanship.
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Linguists think the phrase "badger someone" came from their relentless salesmanship — either that, or the occupation derives from "bagger," someone who carries a bag.
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"There's an element of snake oil salesmanship in real estate, so you have to develop a sense for when they're blowing smoke," he said.
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To critics, the astronomical sale attests to the role of salesmanship in art, because of the painting's damaged condition and questions about its authenticity.
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In short, it will require President Trump's keenest salesmanship to explain why cutting taxes and simplifying the tax code are urgent priorities right now.
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And that is really what the Snap offering is about: good deal-making and salesmanship by its bankers at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
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"[There's] far more money made through salesmanship abilities rather than investment abilities," Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's chairman and CEO, said at the company's annual shareholders meeting.
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How I Made It Fitness icon Tony Little, known for his energetic personality and salesmanship, had to fight through hard times to find his entrepreneurial spark.
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The problem is politely suffering fools, the nods and winks to fight game salesmanship, the not hitting people outside of the context of a sanctioned fight.
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We blather on about the potent social-media salesmanship of superficially jobless celebrities forever photographed out in the wild, getting a pressed juice or a macchiato.
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A lot of what passes for cancer information on the internet is made up of opinion, salesmanship, and testimonials and is not grounded in careful science.
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But none did so with Mr Bowie's sense of dress and theatre, his sexual thrill, his salesmanship and his understanding of what his fans wanted to hear.
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It is salesmanship that is Trump's great gift, and this requires the intelligence to create the self-image that makes his pitch acceptable to his target audience.
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But NASA grasped early on that if taxpayers were to accept pouring billions of their dollars into the project, a measure of slick salesmanship would be required.
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Johnson intended his "salesmanship campaign" to shore up defenses backing the United States' commitment to Vietnam, to push back against those questioning the viability of his policies.
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There wasn't much place for many of the old stars in the new Hollywood, which was less about appearances and salesmanship and more about psychology and behavior.
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And to critics, the astronomical sale attests to something else — the degree to which salesmanship has come to drive and dominate the conversation about art and its value.
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Washington (CNN)A sudden cascade of events is challenging President Donald Trump's boasts of an unprecedented American winning streak that is a critical component of his reelection salesmanship.
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FRANKFURT — Car executives are paid to be optimists, but behind the pomp and salesmanship at the Frankfurt International Motor Show this week lurked an unmistakable sense of angst.
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For an industry veteran like Levitz, the growth of Comic-Con reflects a manifestation of that process, as well as evidence of what Lee's dogged, ebullient salesmanship helped foster.
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Donald Trump's few triumphs have all been short-lived, largely because they've been castles made of sand—for all the salesmanship that's gone into them, there's no lasting foundation.
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Our reporters are trying to find out who the buyer is, but it's clear that salesmanship has come to drive and dominate the conversation about art and its value.
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In the view of one senior executive, it all came down to masterly salesmanship by a single man, Anshu Jain, the chief promoter of the bank's hottest product: risk.
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The president and the Republican Congress should be pointing out that the new Democratic policies of universal employment and guaranteed minimum income are frauds — political exercises in snake-oil salesmanship.
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While Apple had been making the security and privacy of its users for years at that point, that's essentially where its new era of transparency and salesmanship around the topics began.
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Still, his untraditional approach to salesmanship had a reverse playback among a subset of people used to being doted upon: His lack of solicitousness made customers desperate to buy from him.
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We have glommed super-high-tech glitz and slickness onto a 24/7 media blitz of entertainment and salesmanship that relies almost exclusively on the mass of its readers suspending disbelief.
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He was the Deutsche Bank executive who cited Mr. Jain's salesmanship abilities as a formative contributor to the bank's early success in the book that celebrated the unit's 10-year anniversary.
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" Cohen, Trump's lawyer and the recipient of Sater's emails, told the Times that Sater was just using "colorful language" and "salesmanship," and that he "ultimately determined that the proposal was not feasible.
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Some of the most successful start-ups — from Lyft to Airbnb to Stripe to Slack to Pinterest — are run by understated un-visionaries, people who aim for functional competence over hypey salesmanship.
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The Bure breakthrough was a bit like the plot of "Christmas Under Wraps": Hallmark had discovered that it had everything it needed—positivity, reassurance, sentimentality, and cozy salesmanship—right there in Garland.
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This fake-it-till-you-make-it approach is the essence of good salesmanship and gave him both tangible achievements in the form of real estate developments and an actor's skills and instincts.
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Pichinson — a native Illinoisan who is as renowned for his brash style as his salesmanship — doesn't mind any of them, as long as they help keep Sherwood at the top of its game.
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Still, Ms. Kodali cautioned that this kind of salesmanship was still in its early days, adding that augmented reality is one of many data points that online shoppers consider before making a purchase.
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ICS was widely praised and spawned many imitators, some of which were innovative and of high quality, such as Christopher C. Brooks' textile correspondence school (1898) and Arthur F. Sheldon's salesmanship courses (1902).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump took over as U.S. president on Friday in the same way he conducted his upstart campaign, with a mixture of blustery salesmanship and naked contempt for the established political order.
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A master of glass-encased towers and monumental entrances — hallmarks of Trump's properties — the New York architect supplied vision and technical expertise that complemented Trump's salesmanship and attorney-fixer Michael Cohen's brass-tacks negotiating.
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In doing so, he has modeled a certain kind of tenacious political salesmanship, using the Senate and his presidential campaigns as platforms to advance a major policy idea without initial backing from party leadership.
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But through shrewd buying and gregarious salesmanship, he turned Fred Leighton in Manhattan into a retail mecca for those seeking Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Victorian, Indian Mughal, royal jewels and 22015th century shipwreck emeralds.
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Medicare for All, the healthcare plan endorsed by Warren, is a grandly deceptive piece of political snake-oil salesmanship that promises, as all good socialist programs do, something for everyone at someone else's expense.
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The focus of the meeting was salesmanship, but West Wing staff realize that news coverage of the 100-day mark will color Trump's own perceptions about his team has performed in the administration's early days.
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The showdown in Houston, for instance, comes across as tacky rather than triumphant, its sexual politics smothered in salesmanship, and redeemed only by the ferocity of Stone's demeanor as she puts away yet another smash.
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The McDonald's ad didn't get expanded into a movie, but it's still one of the best-remembered of Jordan's Super Bowl commercials, and one that confirms how a champion's charisma can convert easily into salesmanship.
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What the Times story does is something simple but profound: It punctures the balloon -- puffed up by years of Trumpian marketing and salesmanship -- that the President of the United States was some sort of business genius.
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You could put together an adtech startup without a great deal of tech — just a lot of salesmanship: hire a sales team, have limited tech, resell a mix of good and suspect inventory and make money.
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Matterport is in a great position because the high-end real estate market is about marketing and salesmanship just as much as anything, and virtual reality holds a certain level of sexiness at its higher reaches.
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Appliance sales, especially for items like washing machines and refrigerators, still largely happen in brick-and-mortar stores, and come with the type of in-person salesmanship, installation, and ongoing service largely absent in e-commerce.
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Additionally, he knows that many people would rather hear him exaggerate by saying he's the biggest, or the best, or even the smartest, because his presentation is just that much more riveting with the extra salesmanship.
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Desperate for work, he becomes a telemarketer, where his uncanny ability to feign the voice of a confident white man makes him a star, lofting him into a rarefied realm of high-paid, grotesquely immoral salesmanship.
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By first establishing Bikram's efficacy and Choudhury's canny salesmanship, Orner evokes Bikram's appeal even if you know deep down that the holy man with a garage full of luxury cars is probably not to be trusted.
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But in Washington, some Republican lawmakers and officials have watched in dismay and frustration, they say privately, because the president they are looking to for cover and salesmanship of the health care overhaul keeps getting sidetracked.
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Those of us who grew up in the Cold War have rather missed it — the persistent, well-designed, all-encompassing salesmanship of Life's Correct Path, backed up with textbooks, posters and unspeakable stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
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Unless these companies dramatically improve their efforts to prioritize safety and openness over speed of development and salesmanship, they risk both inflicting further harm and alienating a public already wary of the prospect of self-driving cars.
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But Sullivan allowed himself to smile Saturday when asked about his influence — his salesmanship job, if you will — on a team that, improbable as it seemed five months ago, is four victories from winning the Stanley Cup.
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Bought by Mr. Trump in 2004 for $41 million and sold in 2008 to a Russian billionaire for $95 million, the residence has since sat empty, a monument to the housing bubble and to Trump's outsize salesmanship.
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Trump's impromptu press conference on the North Lawn of the White House on Friday unfolded as a breathtaking display of charisma, misrepresentation, hubris and salesmanship that has no obvious parallel in the modern history of Western democracies.
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He loved animals and the outdoors, so, with "a little advertising and a little salesmanship," he began a dog-walking business and not only earned a living but also became a fixture of the Upper East Side.
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He has built them in a way that can withstand short-term concerns and sticks to his guns in a way a visionary can be expected to: skepticism and uncertainty met by equal parts salesmanship and shrewd preparation.
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Falwell cast this dual inheritance in the terms of a clash between God and the Enemy, but it was hard not to see his career as a successful fusing of his parents' influences, salesmanship wrapped in Christian cloth.
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And this year, the networks seem like even less of a headliner: Companies are pivoting away from ad-supported TV and funneling resources and salesmanship into new streaming services that are slated to launch this year and next.
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If was a beautifully crafted bit of salesmanship by Mayweather which the Nevada State Athletic Commission took part in, whipping the masses into a frenzy over their decision to drop two ounces of padding from leather oven mitts each man wore.
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For all the salesmanship and managerial delegation that comes with the job, college football coaches are also aspirational figures and political avatars in a time and place that has otherwise traded aspiration for resentment and politics for its seething, posturing opposite.
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"There's been far, far, far more money made by people in Wall Street through salesmanship abilities than through investment abilities," Buffett said, citing a simple Vanguard Group index fund that tracks the S&P 500 index of large American companies.
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Over the past two months, aided by the good folks at YouTube and its less-scrupulous overseas equivalents, I have watched all 21970 previous Super Bowls—roughly 493 hours worth of football, salesmanship, injury timeouts, and increasingly intense computer-generated graphics.
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In that case, it's far more valuable to a company to be an employee working in so-called expansionary positions, like marketing, than in production jobs, like working a factory line — because there's less production to be done and more salesmanship.
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It was about the fiftieth ranked vodka in the world and so Diddy came on and he applied his typical marketing panache and his shock and awe salesmanship, this was around the time that Barack Obama was running for president.
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For Trump, if one half of his mission on the world stage is the diplomacy and the dealmaking, then the other half is the branding and salesmanship that the former reality TV star has so frequently brought to the presidency.
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House Republican leaders are waiting for the President to turn his famous salesmanship skills to the border adjustment tax — a linchpin of Paul Ryan's tax plan that promises to raise more than $1 trillion by raising taxes on imports while exempting exports.
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WASHINGTON — One of President Trump's greatest strengths in his presidential campaign is his economic salesmanship: He has convinced a devoted share of Americans that his leadership has made the U.S. economy bulletproof and that markets would crash if he were defeated in November.
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For all the ways in which Francis and Trump differ, as figures on the global stage they're also strangely alike — in the forces that they're channeling, their style of public salesmanship, and their relationship to the institutions they either head or aspire to lead.
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Trump's political promises can be viewed through a similar lens: If he has no real intent to make Mexico pay for the wall or ban all Muslim immigrants, these statements can be seen as a special type of deception: pie-in-the-sky salesmanship.
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Because most use the app as a forum for sharing photos among friends, many users chafe at overt salesmanship by retailers, said Yoni Ben-Yehuda of Material Good, a New York seller of luxury goods known for its salon-like retail space in SoHo.
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But he has never come up against anything like the slick salesmanship and free-wheeling social media savvy of Mawarire, a 39-year-old preacher who has become a household name by wrapping himself, literally, in the Zimbabwe flag and posting critical videos on the Internet.
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Mnuchin brings with him the weight of the Treasury Department -- a pivotal resource in the tax push -- but he has rubbed several lawmakers the wrong way with what they perceive as a blend of awkwardness, cockiness and clumsy salesmanship, according to Republicans involved in the process.
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King tried working his brand of salesmanship from the podium, assuring Wilder that he would lose to Stiverne — according to several online betting sites, Wilder is a 10-1 favorite — while at the same time trying to convince him that the loss would benefit him in the long run.
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In my house, artifacts of salesmanship were everywhere: the living room qua makeshift warehouse, stacked with boxes full of brochures, and those pictures of Dad that were always around — from when he was young and when he was old, with a mustache or clean-shaven — standing with some client doing the "grip and grin" pose.
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But Trump didn't even try, and now he has burnt much of the political capital he had on Paul Ryan's health care plan — there is no one, after this, who thinks his salesmanship unstoppable or his commitment to his own agenda unshakable, and that weakens his ability to push the Republican Party to places it doesn't already want to go.
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But Mr. Trump has no fund-raising apparatus to resort to, no network of prolific bundlers to call upon, and little known experience with the type of marathon, one-on-one serial salesmanship and solicitousness that raising so much money is likely to require — even if individuals can contribute up to the current limit of $334,000 at a time to the party.
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The Democrats running for the presidency are relying on a mix of social media salesmanship and old-fashioned merchandising to scoop up what is fast becoming one of the most valuable commodities in the 215 presidential campaign: small-dollar donors who they can tap repeatedly to fuel their primary campaigns and a general election fight likely to cost billions of dollars.
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Joe Namath has some vaguely opinionesque thoughts on issues of the day and also some symbolic resonance to Fox's demographic tranche, given that he was famous when the network's viewers were young; New York Jets quarterbacks are uniquely qualified to hold forth on obvious looming catastrophes; Namath is at the point in his public life when a pivot into reverse mortgage salesmanship is the next logical step, which means getting some Fox News reps is a decent idea.
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A centrist crime-control agenda to pair with sentencing reform, a more incremental, Dream Act-ish approach to immigration, a stress on the most pro-work elements in the party's arsenal of welfare policies, a mild softening of the party's secularism and complete-the-sexual-revolution zeal … with the right leadership and salesmanship, these moves might reassure and win over a crucial fraction of the many voters, blue-collar and white-collar, male and female, who pulled the lever very reluctantly for Trump.
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