Word: selling
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...light not only on a few suspected of corruption but on an entire system that seems tailor-made for cheating. It has become common practice for top military men to retire and head straight for consulting companies -- sometimes known as Beltway bandits or rent-a-general firms -- where they sell their expertise and contacts to defense contractors...
...used to be so hard to come to Cambridge to recruit people from Harvard to work for the Department of Sanitation," Kraus says. "Morgan Stanley would be in one office and the New York City Department of Sanitation would be in the other. It was a hard sell...
Both manufacturers are aggressively pursuing sales in each other's markets. Beech claims that a quarter of the 50 orders it has received have come from European customers, while Piaggio says it will sell 60% of its planes in North and South America. By some estimates, fewer than 8,000 corporate aircraft are in use today worldwide, but the industry is coming out of a decade-long slump, and there may be a backlog of pent-up demand...
...ploy continues to sell perfume, the smells may branch out even further. Imagine if advertisers, in their search for more vivid copy, began running scent strips, say, for Aqueduct Race Track. Or Magic Johnson's Converse ERX 400 high-tops, or Macanudo, the ultimate cigar. It would be enough to make some readers wish they had a cold...
Last month, however, Lilly suddenly announced that it would not sell Spike to Peru or the U.S. Government. Reason: the herbicide had not been fully tested in Peru. The company was undoubtedly reacting to protests by environmentalists, who claim that use of the herbicide on the Andes' delicate ecosystem could turn it into a desert. Just after Lilly's announcement, Walter Gentner, a recently retired research scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, complained that he had been pressured by the State Department to condone use of Spike in Peru before its impact had been assessed...