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Jones said she heard a knock at her door around1 p.m. This was unusual, she said, since visitorsusually ring an outside doorbell and are buzzed inby building residents...
...jobs. Companies routinely sell one another computers, aircraft and other products by phone because it is far cheaper than maintaining large sales forces. Telemarketers can reach business clients for about $10 a completed call, in contrast to the $800 it might cost a firm to have a salesman knock on the door. Says Brenda ) Bazan, an IBM marketing executive in Northern California: "We simply don't have enough people to get new customers, and we view telemarketing as a support system...
...made in America. Guns like the TEC-9, MAC-10 and MAC-11 semiautomatic, though inaccurate, are cheap, terrifying, easily hidden and handily converted to automatic. Sales have soared since 1989, when President Bush banned the import of semiautomatic assault rifles such as the Chinese-made AK-47 knock-off used by a deranged gunman to shoot schoolchildren in Stockton, California...
...NRCC ads implicitly urge voters to knock the Democrats out of Congressional control, because the Democrats are bad. Perhaps they are; but what would make Republicans govern better? That question is never answered. The message is that the Republicans want control; they'll figure out what to do with the power after they get their hands on it. Today's Republican propaganda, no matter how justified, still doesn't deviate from the standard image of Republican propaganda--and it's that standard image that has to change...
Narcissus was a humbling experience, and could instantly knock haughty Harvard kids down to size...