Word: salesmanship
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Besides, if cultural understanding was the key to increased competitiveness, wouldn't bringing more foreign students here help those nations' businesses? After all, their salesmanship would improve as they became more acquainted with the gullible American consumer...
...Ollie's salesmanship provided the opportunity for long-demoralized contra backers at the White House and State Department to mount a new campaign for aid. As a Washington Post/ABC News poll indicated that public support for military aid to the contras rose to 43% on July 15, from 29% on June 1, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater called North's testimony "helpful." President Reagan echoed North in his weekly radio commentary. "The American people are tired of the off-on again policy in Central America," he said...
...directed the spot with her partner Peter Kagan. "It's about emotional moments." For nostalgists, Beatles fans or anyone else who takes rock as seriously as, say, Lennon or Paul McCartney, the ad's most emotional moment may be hearing Revolution's ferocious guitars at the service of salesmanship...
...nomination, he returned home with the idea of becoming what Texans call "big rich." He was already worth about $6 million -- cattle feed by local standards. But Big John saw no end to the twin booms in oil and real estate, and aimed to parlay his connections and powerful salesmanship into serious money...
...West since he became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party last March was freighted with a variety of expectations. But in addition to the matters of policy raised in his travels, one important question for many Kremlinologists was whether Gorbachev would continue to display the skills of salesmanship that have won him a reputation as the Great Soviet Communicator...