Word: interview
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commonly held that Southwestern salesmen manipulate people who don't need the product into buying it anyway. If anything becomes clear after an entire summer of selling with Southwestern, it is that even the very best salesmen hear far more rejections than acceptances. Anyone who attends a Southwestern interview learns that the average salesman, who earns over $2,000, hears some 27 rejections per day in the course of hearing just three acceptances. The best salesmen do no more than listen to a person's needs, and then determine if and how the product might help to fill those needs...
Genuine Unrest. Belatedly, Israel is recognizing the depth of that feeling. Former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan admitted in an interview with the newspaper Ha 'aretz that only genuine unrest, rather than terrorist agitation, could account for the demonstrations. He suggested that Israeli soldiers stay out of West Bank cities to avoid provoking conflict. "West Bank residents should be allowed to live their lives," he said. "If they want, then let them demonstrate and wave Palestinian flags." But Dayan added a chilling corollary: Arab mayors should be warned that if their towns exploded again, they would be placed under...
Despite an abortive coup last year, Mobutu remains unchallenged in his control over both the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR), Zaïre's only legal political party, and the country. In a rare interview, Mobutu spoke with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter at his spacious villa, which looks out over the rapids of the Zaïre River and across to the border of Brazzaville. "For all his dashing flamboyance in public," reported McWhirter, "Mobutu was surprisingly low-keyed and serious. He was nevertheless lively, outspoken and outwardly untroubled about the future of his country and the continent...
During my half hour interview with him, Rosenthal stayed accessible to his staff, never closing the office door. In his office there is a long wooden table surrounded by chairs, where in a daily ritual at 4 p.m., the Times's editors present the news to their boss...
...comfortable with technology. For someone who mastered with infectious enthusiasm retro rockets and fuel tanks, and could wax positively ecstatic over a million pounds of thrust, he cannot rewind his tape recorder. The mighty fall hard: midway through our interview, which Cronkite said he was taping "for my memoirs," the tape...