Word: salesmanship
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...there would still have to be family scenes and maybe a golf game or two, but always there would be an aura of creative and useful work, not the fuselage salesmanship with hired bands and balloons bought by advance men or those minions of Mayor Richard Daley that are dutifully trotted out with their reusable placards...
...down as editor of Vogue. More significantly, her resignation came less than four months after James Brady, 43, former publisher of the gossipy, irreverent Women's Wear Daily, moved in as Bazaar's publisher and editorial director. Intense and facile, Brady brought some of the high-pressure salesmanship of Seventh Avenue to the magazine's more leisurely East Side establishment and. in the words of one Bazaar staffer, "gave everyone an instant identity crisis...
Flamboyant and tireless, Glenn W. Turner is to salesmanship what Billy Sunday was to revivalism. Now 37, he has built a tiny door-to-door cosmetics firm into a multimillion-dollar empire by stirring life's losers with a bewitching fast-buck gospel. "All we're doing is showing people how they can make something of themselves," says Turner, a sharecropper's son who favors neon-bright suits, ivory-colored boots made of skin from unborn calves, and a rhinestone American-flag lapel pin the size of a calling card. Turner's activities have also stirred...
...more crucial. Most notably, Fukuda refused to consider an upward revaluation of the yen, which has risen about 6.5% -far less than the U.S. wants-since Tokyo reluctantly decided to float it against the dollar last month. He also suggested that U.S. manufacturers would benefit from "more aggressive salesmanship," and told Rogers that the surtax must be quickly rescinded, hinting that Tokyo might otherwise be forced to use "countermeasures...
...Flashy salesmanship is necessary, Munves argues, because classical records have been on a downhill trip for years. Although the catalogue is more varied than ever, sales have been sagging, partly because the core of repertory, the standard 18th century and 19th century masterpieces, have all been recorded dozens of times. Between 1968 and 1970, industry-wide classical sales dropped from $76.1 million to $53.8 million, while pop music, spurred largely by the vitality of rock, soared to $1.1 billion. By and large it is the young who spend all that money. Given the right impetus, they are not necessarily averse...