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