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CHEST-THUMPING PATRIARCH: Reformed insurance salesman Tom Evangelista...
...scared. He says he went to prison at the age of 20 for mixing it up with neo-Nazis, and he keeps a poing americain (brass knuckles) handy when he's on the move. But he sees no point in keeping up the struggle. Though Elbeze, an ad salesman, attended public school, he pays j1,200 a month to send his children to private Jewish schools - not just for faith, but for safety. His kids will have plenty of company: in the last 10 years, the number of students in Jewish schools in greater Paris has doubled...
prices for U.S. cattle plunged, squeezed by foreign imports and pressure from big meatpackers. He sold off part of his land and took a second job as a car salesman. "It was slow death," he recalls. "I couldn't offer my kids a life in ranching." But today, together with a handful of other California cattlemen, he sells his certified American beef to specialty grocers and restaurants at a premium. Says Wood, scattering jackrabbits as he steers his pickup past neatly fenced meadows: "Now I feel more confident of the future...
When he was 10 years old, Obama moved back to Hawaii, where he was raised primarily by his grandparents in a small apartment. His grandfather worked as a salesman and then an insurance agent, his grandmother at a bank...
...from the California Institute of Technology, to set up a software trading platform. A few dozen employees, mostly product and finance managers, were each given about $50 in a trading account to bet on what they thought computer sales would be at the end of the month. If a salesman thought the company would sell between, say, $201 million and $210 million worth, he could buy a security--like a futures contract--for that prediction, signaling to the rest of the market that someone thought that was a probable scenario. If his opinion changed, he could buy again or sell...