Word: salesmanship
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...suburban New Jersey. It is not clear when the two made contact with the third suspect, Yong-Qing Cheng, a vice president at the New Jersey-based IT company Village Networks. But according to investigators, the combination of Lin and Xu's insider knowledge of Lucent and Cheng's salesmanship led to the development of a business plan: take the source code for the PathStar Server, build a company around it and market it in China. In July 2000, Cheng traveled to Beijing to meet with the Datang company, an octopus of a communications conglomerate officially owned by the government...
...Thursday, we got a look at his salesmanship. To prove that his plan benefits those "working families," Bush got Andrew Bechac, 33, a teacher who supports his family on $40,000 a year, to stand up in New Orleans and say the magic words: "We all want tax relief, especially for my family and for Middle America around the country. We really need this plan and we really need the tax benefits that will come from this plan." (Bechac later admitted to reporters he was active in the Young Republicans...
...speed of manufacturing culture." Jacobs is planning to do what Kirila originally intended: to lease the patented VEC system in the same way that Pitney Bowes used to lease stamp machines. "We're proving we can do it better, kinder, cleaner," says Jacobs, who has lost none of his salesmanship. "The world is going to come to us." And learn how to make things the new-economy...
...blown off course. Making his way around a desolate coast, he came upon magnificent fjords flanked by lush meadows and forests of dwarf willow and birch, with glacier-strewn mountain ranges towering in the distance. This "green land," he decided (in what might have been a clever bit of salesmanship), would be a perfect place to live. In 985 Erik returned triumphantly to Iceland and enlisted a group of followers to help him establish the first Norse outposts on Greenland. Claiming the best plot of land for himself, Erik established his base at Brattahlid, a verdant spot at the neck...
...rogue states appears to have superseded the concerns of the world's other major nuclear power in Washington's thinking. If Moscow believes nuclear parity is threatened, it may be no more receptive to the take-it-or-leave it brinkmanship of the GOP leaders than to the soothing salesmanship of a lame-duck Bill Clinton...