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After the events of the past weeks, one thing at least is clear: the prospect of banning weapons has no casual connection with the prospect of banning wars. If anyone comes away from the two recent conflicts infused with optimism, it will be the arms salesmen, who do not deal in words. Several of their markets are now dangerously depleted. To the victors, meanwhile, belong the spoils: body counts, colossal costs and some temporary improvement in their fortunes. To the rest, a feeling of helpless stupidity tied earnestly, as ever, to figments of hope. ?By Roger Rosenblatt
Doctors in underdeveloped nations, Silverman says, are singularly dependent upon the data they receive from drug companies, through both salesmen and the data supplied to drug guide publishers. Medical journals are often unavailable or unaffordable, and physicians have little time for reading, since they may be seeing 30 patients an hour...
...computers. But they remind some users of the proverbial dog walking on its hind legs: what is surprising is not how well they work, but that they work at all. One U.S. insurance company is considering buying 25,000 of Matsushita's $380 HHC model to let its salesmen calculate premiums right before potential customers' eyes...
Epps' distrust of the company stems from the fact that all student salesmen and managers are officially independent dealers for Southwestern Earning all their money from commission, the students have to pay all transportation and room and board expenses themselves. Southwestern officials maintain, however, that the company's basic principle is to let students work for themselves "as independent businessmen and women." They contend that the company has followed this principle ever since it was established three years after the end of the Civil War. In the economically devastated South, "young men trying to make their way through college...
Tufts' student employment agency was founded last year, and Director Bernard Pakala contacted other campuses in the area to learn about Southwestern. He discovered that it "wasn't well liked" and was skeptical because recruiters didn't seem to try "to weed out the non-salesmen...