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Word: supervisorships (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called "beauty advisers" are hired to hawk the products door to door. Anybody who buys such a distributorship can also collect $1,950 for each friend or relative he recruits to buy another $5,000 distributorship-or $500 for each person he brings in to buy a $2,000 supervisorship. Thus, almost everyone tries to sell distributorships and supervisorships instead of cosmetics. Those signing up after the first sales blitz in any area often find it impossible to earn their money back. In desperation, distributors have been known to exaggerate their earnings to prospects and try to back up their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTERS: Fast-Buck Gospel | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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