The broadcast, print, and digital media were full of disparate reactions to the hard selling in the market on Wednesday.
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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.
Multinational companies have a hard time selling overseas when the dollar is so expensive.
Just like its competitors, Tower Records is having a hard time selling music at its stores.
The TV generation's financial independence is not lost on hard-selling consumer-goods manufacturers.
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.
At the same time, the U.N. must work hard at selling its peace plan to neighboring nations, so they will rein in their proxies in Afghanistan.
People are having a hard time selling their houses, but I don't see a recession at hand, so I want to stick by my relatively optimistic forecast overall.
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.
"If it wasn't for the big guys underwriting the shares, Sinopec would have a hard time selling, " says Jim Norman, an oil analyst with industry newsletter Platt's Oilgram in New York.
Nintendo is having a hard time selling thirty dollar portable games and they have a comparatively protected market, so Square has a challenge ahead of them with a similar proposition in a more wide-open and competitive marketplace.
Anytime you use unconventional conventions to tell a story, particularly at a time when pop culture is so self-reflective and it's difficult to find a unique voice, I think you are going to have a hard time selling it to people.
And so even the neighbors who are left who are in foreclosure, they are finding that they have a hard time selling their homes for the prices that they need to satisfy their mortgages because the housing market has headed south so badly.
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.
He was hard at work selling mixed cases of Bordeaux, i.e.
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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.
Of course they are not known by cute marketing terms like they are in the U.S. There, the kids who are selling hard candies at an Avenida Paulista stop light are just plain poor.
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By using the threat of a court injunction to halt production of devices he claimed credit for he could obtain lucrative settlements without having to engage in the hard work of selling a working product himself.
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Advertising history is filled with alternating bursts of hard and soft selling over the years, points out industry author James Twitchell, with the current trend coming on the heels of several years of softer messages focused on entertainment.
Telecom equipment share are selling off hard Thursday following a grim Q2 warning from Calix, a provider of broadband communications access gear.
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.
Stocks and bonds both do poorly at such a time--bonds because their prices go down as inflation forces up interest rates, and stocks because corporations have a hard time keeping their selling prices ahead of rising input costs.
While the market is surging the morning, gold is selling off fairly hard in the pre-market.
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.
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.
Someone who can take a once great retail chain with tremendous geographical reach, strong legacy and roots in selling high margin hard to understand products and turn it into a profit center.
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