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...coke subculture and its sympathizers, the laws against this latest drug of choice are regarded as little more than a nuisance, Prohibition redux. "I wasn't running out and killing or robbing people," says Margaret,* 30, a saleswoman for a clothing manufacturer who for two years sold small amounts of coke to support her habit. "I assumed the law-enforcement people had something better to do with their time than to come into my house and arrest me." Margaret, never caught, was right about police priorities: overburdened big-city forces (and prosecutors and courts) are more concerned...
...sternly that she had "created the impression that your agency may be in bed with polluters." Fellow Republican Senator John Chafee complained that she had been "extremely insensitive" about the appearance of impropriety in her frequent lunches and dinners with chemical-industry officials. Lavelle argued that she was a "saleswoman," trying to persuade corporate executives to go to the bargaining table instead of to court, an approach that she submits was designed to be more efficient than litigation...
Sharon Otten, 40, an apparel saleswoman in Anaheim, Calif, knows a good deal when she sees one. When she discovered an automobile dealer's coupon in the Orange County Yellow Pages offering $100 off the price of a new or used car, she was not content to let her fingers do the walking. Instead, Otten went from door to door, besieging relatives, friends and strangers to give her the coupons from their phone books. She even got one from her mother-in-law. When she had collected 91, she offered them to Dealer Scott Nowling after bargaining with...
...movie or producing one, touring the talk shows, raising her two daughters, or promoting the campaign of her husband Tom Hayden for a California state assembly seat this fall. At 44, she is at the top of both her profession and her form. Fonda is an ace saleswoman for her program because for a quarter of a century now she has reflected changing fashions in dress and image, politics and physique. In the '40s she was a movie star's brat, going chubby and haywire, while her father Henry played love scenes and went...
When he asked one saleswoman for shaving cream, she impertinently told him: "We don't have any. If you want a shave, go to a barber shop." His search for soap took him 65 miles away to Novorossisk, where a few bars had been spotted in stores two weeks before. By the time he arrived Novorossisk was out of soap but did have shampoo-for cars. After scouring shop shelves in both cities, all Dorofeyev could turn up for his trouble was a costly bottle of perfume named Luck and a child's toothbrush, which broke...