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...based, location and ability as a salesperson can be crucial to profit. "You need to be vocal otherwise people won't listen," Shorey says. Any Harvard student who has walked by Au Bon Pain is familiar with the aggressive sales pitch--"Young lady, young lady, young lady, well hello sir...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Brother. Can You Spare a Dime? | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...Chanda: Yeah. In our neighborhood we always wave to people like in their cars. If I'm in my car and I see someone running down the street, or vice versa. At least in school when we would answer our teachers we would say 'yes, sir...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Frances G. Tilney, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In Yankee Country: Chitchat | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...Franklin: It's really a big adjustment coming to the North because you talk to people's parents and relatives and they say, 'I'm not that old. Don't call me that.' But people will be offended if you refer to them as sir or ma'am and in the South if you don't use it you're the most uncultured human being who ever walked the earth...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Frances G. Tilney, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In Yankee Country: Chitchat | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...What can I get for you, sir?" she asks with a smile...

Author: By C. MATTHEW Macinnis, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Not My Friendly Skies | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...that he and his companions spotted Diallo from their car as they were cruising one of the Bronx neighborhoods on their beat. To the officers, Diallo looked "suspicious," and as he "darted" into a vestibule, the police decided to question him. They approached him, Carroll said, calling out, "Police! Sir, please stop. We need to ask you a question." Diallo did not stop, he added, and instead headed to the back of the vestibule. There, Carroll said, he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a black object. "Gun!" Carroll screamed, as he fired his weapon at Diallo. Officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Diallo Trial, Justice Is Weighed in Different Measures | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

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