Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gordon Melton, a Methodist who heads the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Evanston, Ill., cults are a natural outgrowth of the religious climate in urban areas. "In a city no one cares what his neighbor does for religion," says he. "You can always sell a few people on every weird idea that comes along." By his reckoning, 10% of America's urban population is touched in one way or another by the new cults. As Melton sees it, that figure may well keep growing right up to the year 2000. "A lot of people will...
...order food and drink, bribe hotel employees to be especially solicitous, arrange side-trips for spouses?or all of the above, typically for 10% of the meeting's cost. There are also convention specialists on the staffs of major.hotels who, like their counterparts in municipal convention bureaus, try to sell gregarious groups into meeting chez...
Nevertheless, Rohr said he hopes to sell 100,000 of the boxers by Christmas, and estimates Seat-of-the-Pants will clear about $1 per pair...
Last June, Hall and Rohr began pounding the pavement to sell their underwear. "Without financing, a manufacturer, or an order from a buyer, we faced a Catch-22 situation," Rohr said...
...South Africa. Few of the petitioned companies provided the information Harvard requested. Instead of taking action against so many companies, the trend within the ACSR has been to justify their continued presence. For instance, even though IBM distorted its employment data, failed to provide important information, and attempts to sell computers to the South African Department of Defense, the feeling was that we not take any action against it, because it might turn out to be one of the best companies there. The original idea was not to simply make some relative judgement...