Word: salesmanship
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...countdown to roll call in Congress, and the vote on the tax bill in the House, according to all predictions, was going to be close. The White House knew that a little salesmanship was in order, and so the Great Persuader went to work. After it was over and Ronald Reagan had once again stunned the House leadership by picking up 48 Democratic votes for his bill, the President insisted: "There hasn't been any arm twisting of any kind." Shucks, no. But there are ways, all sorts of ways...
...contrast to the insistent salesmanship of Jimmy Carter, who unfurled his 1977 national energy plan during a televised network address from the Oval Office, the Reagan White House downplayed its own energy debut to the point of near invisibility. Energy Department staffers simply presented the skimpy, 35-page report and answered press questions during a sparsely attended briefing in the basement of the department's building...
Gaddes cannot readily explain his success with the offbeat. Perhaps his apprenticeship at the Santa Fe Opera -the prototype of the innovative summer company-has something to do with it, as well as his urbane salesmanship. Gaddes also credits public interest in the exciting young singers who have appeared with the company and admits that the BBC's telecast of the 1978 Albert Herring raised the company immeasurably in the eyes of opera-hungry St. Louisans...
...daring raid on Iraq's nuclear reactor-and Britain's vertical-takeoff Sea Harrier the most provocative. While America still is nearly 60% of the air business, competition from our allies is stunningly evident. From gliders to missiles, a dozen nations are seriously challenging U.S. technology and salesmanship. Yet the men from Lockheed, Boeing, Martin-Marietta and scores of other U.S. firms were upbeat. The Soviets were quiet, their stodgy aircraft, like the Il-86 transport, displaying a technological lag. And Ronald Reagan's new defense plans and action in lifting Jimmy Carter's "leprosy" policy...
...then his clerks convert it to the standard format. Stevens' opinions may become increasingly significant. His liberal votes take on a special prominence because of the diminished influence in recent years of old-line liberals William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. So far, his novel theories and poor salesmanship have prevented him from becoming a leader. But Stevens is well aware that many a lonely dissent of the past is now law; he expects his impact to take time. And despite open-heart surgery in 1974, Stevens-at 60 the second youngest justice-is likely to be on the court...