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...There are only about 12 pair in the city," the salesman told me. "They're highly experimental," he added, as if the Army was considering equipping its men with yellow running shoes...
...country into a prosperous and confident world power. "We are trying to compress the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution into a single decade," says Ying Ruocheng, China's best-known stage actor, who appeared two years ago in a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in a Peking theater...
...increase profitability by boosting rates and even refusing to renew risky policies. Many of their rejected customers are having a hard time finding insurance at any price. Says Robert Rearden, president of Duncan Peek, an Atlanta insurance-brokerage firm: "At times it's extremely frustrating. ) The other day a salesman here said to me, 'I need an extra day off. It's tiring delivering all this bad news.' " Many businesses and local governments have been forced to go uninsured, thereby risking bankruptcy or at the very least a fiscal squeeze if they encounter a large lawsuit...
Garland Bunting talks too loud, wears store-bought glasses, doctors himself with coonhound medicine, and has such a sizable paunch that when he told a clothing salesman, "I'd like to see something to fit this," the man replied, "I would too." For more than two decades Bunting has also been a North Carolina legend, the pre-eminent undercover county revenue agent in a state where the making of illegal alcohol is considered next door to a constitutional right. Bunting has been so good at his work that many local folk assume he is "a conjure doctor," a devil...
...Houston, a seemingly tireless Conwell, an oil-equipment salesman who now resides in Oman, said he had belatedly discovered that he was being criticized for his apparently pro-Shi'ite remarks. He noted reports that the White House had preferred that he not speak at Andrews base and that the President's men were relieved when Captain Testrake was asked to become the new spokesman. Once the hostages were freed, Conwell agreed, it made sense to have the captain act as spokesman...