Word: salesman
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...What happened to those four vessels due for Iran? Like any good salesman, Washington simply found a different customer. It spruced them up and, years later, has begun delivering them to a new buyer: Taiwan...
James Dyson--inventor, self-promoter and Britain's most famous vacuum salesman--constantly seeks minor irritations. If the batteries in your hand vacuum go dead just when you need it, you plug it in to recharge and grab a broom, right? Not Dyson. If pet hair clogs the vac and ruins its suction, you open it and clear it out. Dyson embarks on a research project. To him, these issues aren't minor, and they're not irritations. They're business opportunities...
After the war ended, the Tribes set sail for San Francisco, landing two days before Alexander, the younger son, turned one. George became a car salesman, and the Russian-speaking Laurence enrolled in the public schools...
...popular, student, Tribe’s horizons were limited. He hadn’t ever heard of Harvard until a friend suggested he apply, and after being admitted, he enrolled without visiting. His parents had no money—his father was too honest to be a good car salesman, he says—so the University picked up his tuition bill...
...Then he selected Luce to be his partner, and encouraged him to become a journalist after Luce had been fired from his first journalism job. Hadden raised most of the money because he was really the big man at Yale and had the connections, and also was quite a salesman. He hired all of the writers, who were total unknowns, some of them his cousins, and they were the ones who really invented the style of narrative journalism. His greatest achievement was inventing TIME's style, which was really how TIME turned the news into a form of entertainment...