Word: salesmanship
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...false imprisonment, on a charge brought by a girl who claimed he had kept her locked in his gym office for an hour while he tried to persuade her to sign up. In a front-page series, Chicago's American was blasting Tanny gyms for high-pressure salesmanship and false health claims...
...article should have been printed under Business, as it was not saintmanship but salesmanship that was the goal of the author...
...course, most college-educated young men, Goodman, "make up the tribes of salesmanship, entertainment, business management, , and advertising." In this world, attention is paid to the object, the , the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, procedure, prestige, profit." It is a world of role-players, whose performance calms their gnawing feelings frustration and worthlessness...
...move overseas is one of the new and unavoidable realities of a growing free-trade world market-and that the trend is bound to continue. To keep the shift abroad in proper balance-so that customer, company and labor all profit by it-the U.S. needs to employ aggressive salesmanship, product development and efficiency that will make more and more U.S. products attractive to overseas buyers...
After that it was just one great bewildering whirl of salesmanship. She withdrew $7,300 of her savings to buy a lifetime course, put two mortgages on her home to buy the $9,000 gold medal course and then the $12,000 lifetime executive course. By mid-July she had paid out over $25,000, had a nervous breakdown from worry over paying the rest. What sales technique had been used on Mrs. Frisch? Just sheer flattery. Admitted her instructor: "She idolized flattery." In the past, when similar complaints have popped up, Arthur Murray has neatly danced aside, pointing...