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...Iraqi leader was blinking at a frantic pace (as often as 40 times a minute, vs. 20 to 25 during a TV interview last June). John Molloy, a consultant who trains salespeople to handle stress, says Saddam's fluttering eyelids may be a sign of mental breakdown. "When salesmen start blinking, they're usually in trouble," says Molloy. "The guy looks like he's falling apart." While medical researchers are split over the significance of rapid blinking, battlefield commanders confirm that the symptom is common among soldiers who have endured heavy bombardment...
Such tactics have raised the hackles of Montanans, who do not take kindly to outside interference by what Ron Marlenee, a Republican U.S. Representative, calls "Eastern tinhorn snake-oil salesmen." Marlenee has introduced legislation in Congress that would prohibit interference with the bison hunters on public land. A similar bill failed to pass during the last session...
Within a year of his hiring in 1986, Loncar had dumped enough high-risk junk, most of it on unsophisticated buyers and senior citizens with fixed incomes, to become one of First Investors' "Top 100" salesmen. "When clients asked if these investments were safe, we were taught to mislead them," says Loncar. "I didn't even know these were junk bonds. I learned more about those funds after I left the company three years later...
...decline. In the suburbs of Detroit, where sagging auto sales have fanned recession fears, psychiatric referrals from a local counseling service are up nearly 20% over the past six months. Business is also booming at the Massachusetts Psychological Association referral service, where out-of-work lawyers and former bond salesmen seek help in coping with stress, anxiety disorders and panic attacks. Drugstores in the region report brisk sales in Tagamet (for ulcers), Prozac (depression) and Halcion (insomnia...
Consumers complain that calls from these "electronic salesmen," who get their names by purchasing mailing lists, constitute an invasion of their privacy. They are concerned that solicitations that continue even after a recipient hangs up can have serious consequences for fire stations and emergency rooms, which the dialers can reach unintentionally. What irks people most is having to pay for solicitations they never asked for. Those with car phones and pagers are charged for every minute they use a telephone line, whether or not they initiated the call, and fax-machine owners pay up to 10 cents a sheet...