Word: sell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McCain but for all the candidates trying to capture voters' attention in a campaign season in which the markets are up and the world is peaceful and folks have so many other things on their mind. Even for a man with a great story, it's a hard sell. Maybe McCain is right to try to capture their imagination instead...
Free trade is always a hard sell. In all of social science, the proposition that comes closest to being scientific, in terms of being theoretically provable and true in real life, is that a society benefits from allowing its citizens to buy what they wish--even from foreigners. But people resist this conclusion, sometimes violently, as in Seattle last week...
...specialists estimate, and if there is no interest, the price will be lowered to two-thirds of the estimate, and then finally half the price. If there is still no interest, the item will remain unsold. The auction house does not own any of the items that it sells; rather, they sell on consignment, and receive a sellers commission from the original owner and a buyers premium of 15 percent from the winning bidder. These revenues go to defray the costs of advertising the auction, photographing the lots, creating the catalog and paying the staff. Despite the rapid pace...
...Skinner hosts over 60 auctions a year that sell items ranging from American furniture to couture. All auctions are free and open to the public...
...Well, heres my plan (feel free to steal it if you ever get on an MTV show): the moment youre cast, you get on the phone with every major fashion designer in the world. You call Armani, you call Versace, you call DKNY, Polo, Gucci, etc., etc. And you sell yourself, Listen, Im going to be on The Real World. Broadcast as a personality to hundreds of millions of captive viewersviewers who tend to have disposable income and impressionable personalitiesand I want to wear your clothes. Ill be a walking advertisement for you! Ill be a.... Youll look damn good...