The TV generation's financial independence is not lost on hard-selling consumer-goods manufacturers.
Mr Davis, too, has often been underestimated: his lack of technology credentials and regular-guy image have led rivals to dismiss him as a hard-selling dilettante who just got lucky.
The government's economic strategy relies heavily on hard-currency earnings from selling electricity to its neighbours.
But without a big financial reward, it is hard to make cross-selling work.
Amazon is an on-line retailer selling hard copy and soft copy content such as e-books, movies, CDs and all kinds of merchandise.
Mr. Wu had a knack for selling hard-nosed business decisions as generosity.
Others made money selling hard-currency life insurance just after the crash, when dollars were scarce and Russians were desperately seeking ways of preserving their roubles from inflation.
Warner's sales have also been buoyed by its acquisition last year of prominent independent label Rykodisc and its purchase last January of Roadrunner Records, the home of platinum-selling hard-rock band Nickelback, Wilson said.
But it gains sales over the long term because dealers won't alienate consumers by using the hard sell to push slow-selling vehicles to ambivalent shoppers.
He is a serious and hard-working pianist who has been selling out Carnegie Hall and other major venues for five years.
On February 9th, it told the country's banks to start selling all their hard-currency inflows to the central bank and the state petrol-importing monopoly, at the official rate.
Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.
According to Hilco Real Estate's Mr. Nagrani, unprofitable fast-food locations are having a hard time selling their sites to other franchisees and shutting their doors instead.
While the market is surging the morning, gold is selling off fairly hard in the pre-market.
Now that Xstrata and Glencore have unveiled their widely expected plan to merge and form a mining-and-commodities behemoth, the hard work begins: Selling the deal to shareholders and regulators.
We understand that unless we have balanced growth, unless we have not just consumer demand here, but are selling things -- selling our products overseas, that long-term sustainable growth is going to be hard to achieve.
There's no doubt that, given the economic slowdown that we're experiencing, it's hard if you are -- if you're selling a little more than half of what you did two years, that you're not going to run into problems with your business model.
Although attendees may or may not get the item they were promised, one thing is sure -- they're a captive audience for some hard selling.
So that means the recent HBO Hard Knocks effect on anything Dolphins-related and the second-highest selling Robert Griffin III Redskin jersey had no impact on our results.
While it's already being used in art galleries and inside cameras (as sensor covers), Nippon Electric Glass is pushing hard to get its invisible glass featured on mobile devices -- the selling point here is simply to achieve the effect of somewhere in between glossy glass and matte glass, so that you'd get the best color vibrancy with minimal reflection.
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It is hard to think that teams would have trouble selling tickets in a soccer-intense country like Italy, but the fact is that public funding and political gridlock make it difficult for teams to modernize their facilities.
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SDLP, deserves much of the credit for getting the Good Friday Agreement signed, but his party has been overtaken by Sinn Fein, whose links to violence and hard-line stance against unionism appealed to those who suspected the moderates of selling out.
"The vision is established, and now they need a hard-nosed manager to manage the thing, to make the business ties, and do the selling, " he said.
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