Word: salesman
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...singing the lyrics to “Windowsill,” which, like so many of the other tracks off 2007’s “Neon Bible,” strike a world-weary tone. “I don’t want the salesman knocking at my door,” Butler intones. “I don’t want to live in America no more.” Right on cue, the cab stops for a red light right next to a Best Buy store, and its glowing sign floats in space next...
Those who blame America's gun culture note that sales of weapons and ammo have been brisk lately, fueled by fear of a recession-related crime wave and fear that the Obama Administration might tighten gun laws. But remember what Linda Loman said as her husband, the failed salesman Willy, headed toward his suicide: "Attention must be paid." When Arthur Miller wrote that, 60 years ago, it was a lament. Now it's a deadly threat...
...Dylan song with the words in it. But obviously there’s a very long tradition of music without text. 13. FM: Do creativity and an interest in art run in your family?EM: Yes. Both my brother and sister are artists. My dad is a salesman and my mom is an accountant, so I don’t know where it came from, but my parents are super supportive and they’re fans of art even if it isn’t their job. My dad would travel a lot when we were little...
...hallmark of capitalism, before the government got involved in what car company and bank executives were to be paid, was that employees could make as much as management felt they were due based on their contributions to the firms where they worked. The best salesman at a company could earn more than the CEO. The best investment banker at a brokerage firm could earn more than the head of investment banking. Just because a CEO held the highest title at a company did not mean that he had to be paid more than everyone who worked for him. Annual compensation...
This morning he has prospective snowbirds from Spain, Ontario ("We just can't ignore these prices"), Boston and Mingo Junction, Ohio, where another steel mill is about to close. "Opportunity is banging at your door," Joseph tells them, and he'd sound like any cheesy salesman if he weren't so attached to this place and so angry at what was done to it; it's as if his house had been burned down by reckless kids playing with matches and he's building it back up again board by board. It's gotten so bad that the courts have...