Word: salesman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there was something wrong with my plan of action." One last gold would not only cement his place as walking's greatest, but also boost his post-Athens work - promoting walking and fitness. "Walking develops the whole body. And it's a cheap sport!" he says, in full salesman mode. "You can train anytime, anywhere." He has helped to start eight athletics clubs in Poland and owns a sportswear line, appropriately branded Walker. He coaches his sister Silwia. He's joined tennis' Williams sisters as a face of the McDonald's Go Active! fitness campaign. "I'm promoting walking," Korzeniowski...
Denial was of little use because the pictures told the story in a universal language of domination. And the perps in the pictures were somehow familiar, the giddy weekend warriors under the command of the traveling window-blind salesman, the boy next door--and the girl. This time women can't privately tell one another that if only we were in charge, we might all have a chance of getting along, because there she is, Private England, gloating, holding the leash. And the female general in command was telling reporters last summer that conditions were so much nicer...
...fill. Though not a complete solution to the CIA's problem of gathering human intelligence, the NOC program can help. It's extremely expensive and dangerous to build a credible non-official cover by planting someone in, say, a corporate executive post in Islamabad or as a cell phone salesman in Madrid - positions in which a CIA officer would have no diplomatic immunity from arrest by the host government and little protection from deadly retribution by terrorists. Worse, the CIA has faced major bureaucratic hurdles in setting up an infrastructure to ensure that an NOC appears to be paid...
...says, "is to get yourself a business visa, wear a $1,000 suit and say you want to invest in a New Zealand business." (It's been claimed al-Qaeda high-up Ayman al-Zawahiri visited New Zealand twice in the 1990s posing as a leather salesman, but Foreign Minister Goff says police have found no evidence for this.) Alternatively, Buchanan says, "you could come on a student visa and overstay, though that's being tightened up worldwide - many of the 9/11 hijackers were in the U.S. as students." In Auckland last week, a Kuwaiti student and an Iraqi were...
...empire; in Fort Washington, Pa. In 1946, cooking in a bar while on strike from his job at General Electric, Piszek discovered that his deviled crabs, which had become the house favorite, tasted just as good after a week in the freezer. He and friend John Paul, a bread salesman, each pitched in $350 and starting selling frozen fish sticks. He bought out Paul in the 1950s but denied his mother's request to rename the brand Mrs. Piszek...