Word: salesmanship
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...Presidents use their transitions differently. Clinton's has been marked by two factors: the beginning of what promises to be a drawn-out and difficult education process designed to change the way Americans think about themselves and their country, and the appointment of advisers whose primary roles will involve salesmanship and the implementation of programs more than policy development...
Getting beyond Perot's slick salesmanship...
...Rush not only abridges the text but provides comedy sound effects (dolphin noises, Meryl Streep impressions and a frog slurp). He has the Limbaugh Letter, a monthly compendium "dedicated to preserving my wisdom for the ages" and "printed on nonrecycled paper." He has T shirts, mugs, bumper stickers. In salesmanship as in showmanship, he's a winner...
...movie's plot is also stunted; their is no story involved, just a point: salesmen suck, life sucks. None of the characters accomplish anything, they just sink deeper into the depths of real estate salesmanship and the vile morass of life...
Perots without his megalomania and glibness but with some of his energy, determination and salesmanship. Perots who are willing and able to focus on specific issues and solutions -- some perhaps from his own experts' program...