They'd fly to Paris and Frankfurt and sell the virtues of Upstate South Carolina.

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The effort should help Cisco sell the phones to small businesses, which usually fly below its radar.

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"So Monday to Friday I'd sell my goods in Uganda and on a weekend I'd actually fly to Dubai, fill my suitcase up with IT stuff again and bring it back, and the same repeated, " he adds.

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Cathay, which last week secured rights to fly the lucrative London-New York route, will also be able to sell tickets throughout China, opening up a new revenue source.

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Who would have thought that a sales trainer would be unable to fly to his seminar location because of terrorism or that a florist would have no product to sell?

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