Word: salesmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friends and relatives, everyone will be more likely to get along. Once or twice a year, store managers and assistants are taken to corporate retreats, where they spend a good deal of their time doing silly activities like making small boats out of cardboard, tape and empty milk cartons. Salesmen are encouraged to tune TVs in their stores to sports events, set up putting greens, throw around Nerf footballs and take in doughnuts or pizza for themselves and the customers...
That Saddam would have continued feverishly pursuing weapons of every kind seems more in keeping with his character than the idea that he gave up on them. The Iraqi dictator was crazy for weapons, fascinated by every new invention--and as a result was easily conned by salesmen and officials offering the latest device. Saddam apparently had high hopes for a bogus product called red mercury, touted as an ingredient for a handheld nuclear device. Large quantities of the gelatinous red liquid were looted from Iraqi stores after the war and are now being offered on the black market...
...just hope this doesn't sour fund investors," say Sheldon Jacobs, editor of the newsletter No-Load Fund Investor. "Whatever the problems, mutual funds are still better than almost any alternative. If you think mutual funds lack integrity, try dealing with brokers, insurance agents, annuities salesmen or hedge funds." In other words, this black eye will heal, and maybe now industry executives, as Spitzer might say, will finally get it. --With reporting by Barbara Kiviat/New York City
...Throughout the region, once booming businesses catering to long-haul travelers stand empty. Waiters at smart restaurants in Singapore, sarong salesmen in Bali, bar girls in Pattaya?all sit idle, hoping enough customers will straggle in for them to survive another deathly quiet season. Hong Kong is meanwhile gasping for oxygen, enduring its worst slump in leisure travel in anyone's memory. Flights are full only because carriers have cut back heavily on the frequency of service and cancelled many routes altogether...
After scanning my registration badge’s barcode at the front gate, I entered into a world of techno gadgets, chatty salesmen and frantic conference attendees, all trying to make the most out of their limited time at one of the most important business technology shows of the year...