Cold-hearted door-to-door salesmen are preying on the elderly and conning them into buying over-priced funerals. |
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They say familiarity breeds contempt and I can certainly vouch for that when it comes to door-to-door salesmen. |
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Corporate clients, bridal parties, race-goers, tourists, travelling salesmen, tweed-suited ladies who lunch, all are warmly welcomed here. |
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Similar, if somewhat warmer, hospitality is offered to particular travelling salesmen who visit the community regularly. |
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He thought mobile e-mail would catch on with everyone from traveling salesmen to stay-at-home moms. |
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They were typified by white-collar workers, travelling salesmen, and clerks. |
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Its concern to preserve local jobs for locals even led it to place a ban on door-to-door canvassing by travelling salesmen. |
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Police are warning the public to be wary of travelling salesmen, in particular those selling generators and tools. |
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Thus almost everyone with dependants has a potential need for life insurance, and thus there is a need for life-insurance salesmen. |
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Typically, the shares of the new megabank will be sold worldwide, allowing salesmen in every corner of the globe to get a cut. |
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The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds. |
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Cowboy traders and dodgy doorstep salesmen are prowling around, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting or the plain gullible. |
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Insurance companies in particular train their salesmen to sell policies to friends and relatives. |
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Happily, this is not a problem with the estate, because salesmen don't drive estate cars. |
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This is probably not a serious problem for banana salesmen, but could impact subatomic physicists, for example. |
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Previous attempts have failed as I have always come face-to-face with salesmen who don't appear to speak a word of English. |
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Despite their sometimes unseemly reputation, car salesmen and saleswomen know how to sell. |
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Legend has it that apprentice salesmen must prove themselves by manning a winter coat stall in the sweltering month of August. |
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Now, I don't normally buy anything from travelling salesmen but I did need some cigs and he said his mother was sick. |
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His delivery was pretty much parrot-fashion, rather in the nature of replacement window salesmen. |
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Somehow, it seemed that one of their salesmen was selling far more glass than any of the other members of the sales force. |
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The mountain pass is a difficult road to travel and it appears as though you are not apothecaries or wandering salesmen. |
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I cold-called my way through the phone book searching for people naive enough to allow the company's salesmen into their homes. |
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The notion that sharp-suited, fast-talking salesmen make the world go round is simply not true. |
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Most such meetings also feature commercial displays and eager salesmen pitching their company's products. |
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Cotton was the key to prosperity, but manufacturers, merchants, salesmen, dyers and finishers all had business there, too. |
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You can lie on the beach here in peace, unmolested by the salesmen who seem have colonised almost every beach in places such as Thailand. |
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The salesmen have been telling producers many half-truths and some outright deceptions. |
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If you are buying only to flip the property quickly, you need to be absolutely certain the salesmen really deliver what they say. |
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Police are appealing to people in Darwen to keep their homes secure after bogus salesmen swooped on the town. |
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And no, there is no insurer who can protect you from the advances of amorous waiters or leather jacket salesmen. |
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We hate being condescended to by car salesmen as much as y'all hate being made fun of by your television. |
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The cooking equivalent was the Costard, which gave rise to the term costermonger, first applied to apple salesmen. |
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In the movie, Baldwin, as a sales motivator, gives a chalk talk to a group of real estate salesmen on the techniques of making a sale. |
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Police are warning people to beware of unscrupulous high-pressure salesmen at their doors. |
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For the mass of the population they were not only salesmen but bringers of news, street entertainers, quacks, and sorcerers. |
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Every auto buying experience I've had involved the worst kind of back-stabbing slimy salesmen until now. |
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During her speech, Mrs Hewitt also launched a major consultation on new powers to tackle dodgy doorstep salesmen. |
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They don't look any different from regular clerks or salesmen, with their plain clothes and common haircuts. |
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Inspired by the intrepid babushka, I overcame the inbred fear of Russian salesmen and requested that my order be warmed as well. |
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This is not the brave new world we were sold, like so much soft soap, by untold motion picture, pulp novel, and television traveling salesmen. |
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Other salesmen called to sell door to door, like the linen man, who brought a van full of household linen. |
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Some have even returned to the fray for second helpings, while journeymen pros have come and gone like travelling salesmen. |
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My job was to data entry product orders into the computer system, and listen to the salesmen on the phone so I could learn how to sell. |
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Office stationery cupboards used to be crammed with reams of carbon paper sold to gullible secretaries by pushy salesmen during the lunch hour when the boss was out. |
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Back when salesmen were viewed as barely employable con men working some sort of semi-legal grift, the profession was populated almost entirely with drunks. |
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As some companies launch aggressive door to door consumer selling campaigns, with salesmen with little accountability, we fear even larger scale hassle for customers. |
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For smokers to feel good safely, sellers have to become Al Bundys of Bud, salesmen of the saddest sort. |
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Here donkey carts clop along unpaved streets past fly-studded carcasses hanging in butchers' shops, and peanut vendors and yam salesmen hawk their wares. |
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These days, instead of snake oil salesmen hawking their wares from the back of a wagon, we have late-night cable television infomercials and Web-based promotions. |
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Basic cop-on tells us that if our teachers are paid less than our second hand car salesmen, we will ultimately be left with stupid kids driving fast cars. |
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Our problem is having the salesmen who can go to that other country and just like the salesmen of any product, clinch the deal. |
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Even so, the firm has yet to take advantage of groupware that would allow salesmen to devise fancy new financial products. |
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So the inhabitants had to stay alert and the salesmen had to be informed for the district to stay clean and become the public garden it is now. |
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Such disdain is trumped only by the sempiternal public contempt for Congress and car salesmen. |
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I don't think you guys could make car salesmen, but I'm going to put you in the same category. |
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We will continue to pursue new orders for the Hawk, and our marketeers and salesmen know the importance of these to our company and its employees. |
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Some persons profess to believe in some future wherein salesmen will not be needed, because buying will have reached a saturation point. |
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I represent the constituency of Kelowna-Lake Country where there are many seniors and they are often susceptible to smooth-talking salesmen. |
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The Ford Mondeo hit the showrooms, bringing gladness and stereo tape decks to travelling salesmen. |
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More profoundly, he furthered a change in what drives Merrill's business, with less emphasis on salesmen and more on managers. |
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But they also make better salesmen than the grouchy, reclusive male farmers of yore. |
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Then there is the public attitude towards salesmen, which is reflected in all too many corny jokes. |
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Later, merchants centered in Nuremberg gained control over these traveling salesmen and forced village artisans to adopt uniform designs and to specialize. |
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Hurried travelers slalom between the shoeshine boys and the itinerant salesmen. |
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Little did the shop owner or the salesmen know that the tall gentleman in jeans and a T-shirt was not only an officer, but the numero uno of the country's air force. |
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The thirties didn't lack snake oil salesmen, but few of them had the sophistication or the tools of today's representatives. |
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The peddlers, the fruit salesmen, have connections with produce managers and smaller retail firms. |
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The prospective distributor must agree to purchase a large quantity of goods, which may be resold to its salesmen. |
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Cars and their salesmen may have changed but Quant remains firmly fixed in her passions and priorities. |
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Doctors need to get the bulk of their drug information from sources other than salesmen. |
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The Seeds Act of 1923 was designed to prevent seed salesmen from selling bad varieties and bad seed to unsuspecting farmers. |
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Many of my constituents have written to me as the victims of bullying and aggressive door-to-door salesmen. |
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Our salesmen will present their customers assistance proposals in order to optimize their facilities. |
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In phase 3, to facilitate the spreading in different areas, a quiz was built up in order to set up homogeneous groups of ten salesmen. |
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These efficient, intuitive salesmen saw the potential for an obvious growth market. |
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I had to do what the salesmen at Acura probably dread, for the moment at least, to see their regular customers buy across the street. |
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It is the salesman who keeps the factory wheels turning, and all of us are salesmen of something or other. |
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In most cases, salesmen tell nuts-and-bolts stories about the uses and benefits of the products or services they sell. |
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This is a programme for salesmen which demands hard work and straight thinking. |
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They also did away with commission-motivated salesmen, offering instead advice and guidance from salaried employees operating in the company's own retail network. |
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There's no question that financial advisers have cleaned up their act in recent years, but there are still too many bad products and ruthless salesmen out there. |
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You can't walk down the streets in the touristy harbor front area without being accosted by ambitious salesmen insisting you order a suit from the tailor they represent. |
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In The Internship, Billy and Nick are two 40-something watch salesmen who get laid off. |
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Its strategy was also to pay the salesmen immediately, directly charging the cost to the client's policy and removing this charge over a long period of time. |
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Before they became moguls, the men who made Hollywood had been clothiers, merchants, traders in diamonds and fox stoles, yard-goods and dry-goods salesmen. |
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I have always wondered why shoe salesmen think I can't tie my shoes by myself. |
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Thus Atlas has consulted the psychic yard goods salesmen who worked the Chicago territory before Bellow, from Theodore Dreiser to James T. Farrell to Nelson Algren. |
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I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox and the salesman called over all the other salesmen and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter. |
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Double glazing Double glazing good, double-glazing salesmen bad. |
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Great salesmen invariably stretch the truth. |
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Then comes the turn of the salesmen of amulets and talismans, of the brewers of magic herbal potions and of the spell casters, of all trying to find a recipe to cope with the unfamiliar. |
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They may be the office type or salesmen, introverts or extroverts. |
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Many of us have been hornswoggled by aggressive salesmen out for fast money. |
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Also, in a separate survey in which Canadians were asked to rank various occupations, politicians were rated second last, just ahead of used car salesmen. |
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Traveling salesmen are always on the move, looking to stay on schedule and get as much done as they can. |
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I said, 'Well, Colonel, how many salesmen do you have out in the field?' And he said, 'Oh, we don't solicit — we don't believe in solicitation.' I was flabbergasted. |
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I am reminded of Denis Healey's joke in the 1970s that he would like to do to economic forecasters what the Boston Strangler did to the reputation of door-to-door salesmen. |
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In Madagascar we sold more than 12 million Maggi tablets in the first six months of operation using backpacker salesmen to distribute to small local communities. |
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Many otherwise well qualified salesmen are being kept from advancement to more important positions chiefly because they shun system and defy orderliness in the way they go about their work. |
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Often very young, these tiny salesmen had harsh working conditions. |
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I don't appreciate salesmen who make promises and then fail to follow through. |
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Wedgewood was known to have used marketing techniques such as direct mail, travelling salesmen and catalogues in the eighteenth century. |
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Rock groups swap members the way fridge-freezer salesmen swap wives. |
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Teen-age salesmen from Wear Ever pots and pans, also upstairs, took me to the Cherry House for ice cream sodas on our first dates. |
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Pesticides salesmen are often former officials responsible for information sharing and training at the time when farming inputs depended on the Ministry of Agriculture. |
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They will be bantering and bartering with the crowds of snake-liquor and ginseng salesmen who are expected to line the mile-long road from the site to their living quarters. |
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A notorious flimflammer among traveling salesmen, he presents himself as a professor of musicology, organizing brass bands wherever he goes, but he doesn't have a clue about playing, much less reading, music. |
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Creative salesmanship doesn't recognize as salesmen those who spread out, in cafeteria style, what they have to sell, and wait for the customer to decide whether he can use it, how much and when, and give them an order. |
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Western heads of state put away their lawyer's robes and become salesmen. |
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The pre-sales courses are aimed at the engineers in charge of giving technical support, for UPS and Industrial products, to both the salesmen and customers. |
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The salesmen may be doing all right, but may be foiled by confusion in the order department, or by faulty factory superintendence resulting in short supply and nondelivery. |
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Nine out of 10 towns are plagued by travelling salesmen linked to foreign criminal gangs selling shoddy toys, clothes and jewellery, often by intimidation. |
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We seem to have a lot of door-to-door salesmen at the moment. |
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