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...anticipated. "Every two weeks Eliot would come in asking for more money," says Michael Cherkasky, who headed the investigation division (and is now president of risk-consulting firm Kroll Inc.). "We were actually stuck running a business--and losing money. I said, 'Eliot, you're becoming a shmatte salesman?'" But the shop manager eventually got close to the Gambinos, and officials were able to plant a bug in their office, in an elaborate ruse that involved picking locks, switching off alarms, disrupting utilities and distracting guards...
...hostile boredom, dies suddenly. She leaves him the house trailer in which they planned to embrace a footloose life and evidence that she once had an affair with his best friend. His ill-favored but blindly loved daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) is about to marry a slippery water-bed salesman (Dermot Mulroney) and be absorbed into his awful family. They are ruled over by a mom (Kathy Bates) who is an overbearing monster of cordiality, and are lost in a time warp more preposterous than Schmidt's: they still live like '60s hippies...
...decrease comes a surge in new buyers. According to U.S. market research firm iSuppli/Stanford Resources, sales of flat-screen TVs will double in 2002 to nearly 1.7 million units and will reach 12 million by 2005. "Soon, people won't buy the old TVs anymore," predicts Gary Yuen, a salesman at a Fortress electronics store in Hong Kong...
Death of a Salesman...
...Marshall Field's department store in the suburban Chicago Woodfield Mall, salesman Jim Heneghan, 17, finds that demonstrating the Dockers technology for customers often helps close a sale. "They're in awe," he says. "Mostly it's the wives--they're tired of getting the stains out of the pants...