And the sales pitch they have used is, more or less, the sales pitch progressives use — a decision they will, I believe, come to regret.
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Directed by Marc Munden, scripted by Tony Grisoni Based on "Sales Pitch," 1954 "Sales Pitch," similar to "Autofac," is about high-tech consumerism taken to a bizarre, illogical endpoint.
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Here's the latest: • The sales pitch of her life.
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Trump received $$ from LL Bean & followed with a sales pitch.
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The Trump University "faculty" was adept at its sales pitch.
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Facebook's mission statement sales pitch falls well short of that.
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But beware the smooth sales pitch or the charmer's hustle.
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She said that is not a very good sales pitch.
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The sales pitch about India's potential was already wearing thin.
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And Jolie Pitt was very impressed by their sales pitch.
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In spite of a persuasive sales pitch, New York literary
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Beneath his grand vision, of course, was a sales pitch.
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That sounds like part of the company's sales pitch, though.
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But Apple's sales pitch of liberation is not so straightforward.
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As a 5G sales pitch it was all very underwhelming.
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Don't send your sales pitch or risky text just yet.
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Listening to the Mojo is this product's best sales pitch.
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In short, they embraced Mr. Trump's sales pitch for himself.
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There was no sales pitch at this table for 8003.
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She moved away from him, but continued her sales pitch.
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But is the science as convincing as their sales pitch?
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Winning is a big part of Mr. Trump's sales pitch.
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For years, free trade's political sales pitch has been wanting.
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How badly does this sort of sales pitch mislead customers?
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Sometimes, that's the razzle dazzle of a great sales pitch.
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Kai takes Beverly out for drinks and gives his sales pitch.
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It's a bold sales pitch that so far few are buying.
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It sounds fantastic, but the results didn't match the sales pitch.
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Trump's shifting sales pitch hasn't been persuasive with voters or Congress.
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The number one tip: avoid a sales pitch about your child.
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On the famous Steve Jobs' sales pitch that 'it just works'.
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So part of a successful sales pitch is handling those objections.
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Scores of companies around the country succumbed to Plaisted's sales pitch.
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Or, at least that is Musk's sales pitch to the world.
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Consumer advocates wonder what FEMA expected other than a sales pitch.
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But she has a personal sales pitch: her own newfound confidence.
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But the sales pitch was not enough to hold Republicans together.
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But it's an appealing sales pitch for primary voters in New Hampshire.
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DOCTOR RODOLFO ROBLES INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE, Mexico — It was a strong sales pitch.
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Yossi's smart ... his sales pitch caters to the left and the right.
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Back with Charley, she gives Martin a sales pitch for her mill.
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Amazon Go's entire sales pitch, you see, is that it's fully automated.
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Undeclared senators Neil Gorsuch's sales pitch: I'm my own judge Independent Sen.
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And you know that sales pitch he's making to be your president?
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Looking back, I had no idea what a sales pitch really was.
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Battery life does factor in pretty heavily in Huawei's sales pitch, though.
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The sales pitch seemed to take into account a new economic reality.
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The mystery and even the danger is part of the sales pitch.
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But that polished prototype was more of a sales pitch than a product.
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Again, there is dissonance between the opt-in argument and Apple's sales pitch.
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After the demo, you can track conversion rates and improve your sales pitch.
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We don't need a sophisticated sales pitch, that's one advantage of our solution.
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Contrary to the sales-pitch, some of these firms face high variable costs.
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He touted the company's lenient return policy as part of his sales pitch.
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As with the sales pitch of any good huckster though—wait, there's more.
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That sales pitch is proving less convincing than he thought it would be.
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"Our sales pitch is not that we are autonomous," CEO Edwin Olson says.
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"They're dropping the utopian sales pitch they started with," a counterterrorism expert said.
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"They're dropping the utopian sales pitch they started with," a new study says.
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Surprises will await those people who fall for this snake-oil sales pitch.
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Mr. Sisi responded in kind, sometimes in language mimicking a Trumpian sales pitch.
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Try making that sales pitch to a government funder or a mainstream investor.
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GOP leaders are trying to gear their sales pitch toward middle-class families.
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Yet analysts are wary such a sales pitch will produce any tangible outcome.
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"The product itself sort of lags behind the sales pitch," Marquis-Boire said.
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For retailers and consumer goods brands alike, that means re-thinking their sales pitch.
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" Confused, I tried to continue my sales pitch, but she continued to say, "Stop.
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THE national sales pitch of Bhutan sounds oddly boastful for a shy mountain kingdom.
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We've become inured to the get-out-the-vote sales pitch; the nation endures.
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Especially for customers who have never been there before, it's a great sales pitch.
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The dream of mind triumphing over matter was also the sales pitch of Dianetics.
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Seeing those frigates at British bases in Asia helps the sales pitch even more.
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The founder of LuLaRoe, an embattled multilevel marketing company, was outlining a sales pitch.
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Enter the latest sales pitch, which encourages women to stand up for their rights.
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Tesla's strength comes from its sales pitch of delivering the best possible electric vehicles.
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"We are doing something that will alter the world map," the sales pitch reads.
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The support of the Yellow Wall forms a considerable part of Dortmund's sales pitch.
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But the headlines about Carlson and Pirro's offensive statements are undermining Fox's sales pitch.
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It also doesn't make a good sales pitch for getting hired at the firm.
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Clavijo said his sales pitch was simple: We offer a better way of life.
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Being in line with the overall market, however, is not a strong sales pitch.
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Mr. Morris's sales pitch did not lean heavily on his career in broadcast journalism.
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Needless to say, consumer groups weren't particularly impressed by the two companies' theatrical sales pitch.
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The scarcity sales pitch had the added benefit of the fact that it was true.
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He's invoked these dystopian ideas before, but only as a prelude to his sales pitch.
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There's really not much difference between political canvassing and the door-to-door sales pitch.
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What Silicon Valley truly is, once we move past the sales pitch, is not pleasant.
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After angry clients began putting pressure on the firm, Tiversa could make a sales pitch.
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Shawn seemed a little embarrassed that he'd given me what was essentially a sales pitch.
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That's achievable, in theory, if you have a better product and a brilliant sales pitch.
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Saving the planet will not, it seems, be a big part of the sales pitch.
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Couch, who has a background in sales, knew a sales pitch when she heard it.
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The sales pitch on its website promises parents "a traditional curriculum in a traditional style".
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Neil Gorsuch's sales pitch: I'm my own judge Here's what Democrats have said about Gorsuch.
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Gurley said problems can arise when founders start to fool themselves with their sales pitch.
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With that in mind, here are some tips for nailing the sales pitch every time.
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It's not hard to imagine some retailers using the coming tariffs as a sales pitch.
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In the inbox, the line between personal correspondence and sales pitch gets blurrier and blurrier.
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AI is a linchpin feature that Google is using with its enterprise software sales pitch.
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Something fundamental is amiss with Google's sales pitch as well as its product design philosophy.
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"Nudges" and a higher bar for new-mail notifications round out Google's revised sales pitch.
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During her sales pitch, she repeatedly highlighted her connection to Kushner and the White House.
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"It's like you're in a hotel room," Vega said, giving a version of his sales pitch.
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Ellen, of course, chose an array of sex toys, and Roberts' sales pitch was predictably hilarious.
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Did this make it harder for gallerists to "package" your work for an easy sales pitch?
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Let's face it; wedding announcements and political arguments aren't the best places for a sales pitch.
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Raising the money for the second fund will take more than a 45-minute sales pitch.
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Shirtless Liam Hemsworth in a "PG-13" setting is only part of this sensational sales pitch.
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Another challenge: Big financial institutions worry that a heavy-handed sales pitch will push customers away.
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Caterpillar's sales pitch is that its machines use less fuel and help construction teams work faster.
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Mixed in with Trump's repeal/replace sales pitch Tuesday were staples of his 2016 stump speech.
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If there is anything he knows how to do very well, it's crafting a sales pitch.
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"We have a number of conversations going on," says Ellis of progress on its sales pitch.
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Baldanov said that, so far, the company has had zero takers on its shady sales pitch.
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And these are the four lies they've decided are the most central to their sales pitch.
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And maybe the final sales pitch will make a few more athletes and visitors feel safe.
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In short, Boys sounds like Nashville, but for boy bands — on paper, an excellent sales pitch.
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The GOP leadership's aggressive sales pitch comes during a critical moment for the Republican healthcare plan.
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But this sales pitch for the 50-story, 447-unit apartment building isn't meant for buyers.
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The website reads like the kind of breathless sales pitch you might receive for a timeshare.
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The ineffectiveness of Trump's sales pitch could be heard in the House chamber on Tuesday night.
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When we breached the atmosphere, our sales pitch was met with a surface to air missile.
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The new sales pitch for McGregor and the U.F.C.: Conor the sportsman, not Conor the heel.
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Many people have experienced accepting a meeting only to find it turn into a sales pitch.
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Something more fundamental is amiss with Google's sales pitch as well as its product design philosophy.
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So are a sales pitch and brand, like Buttigieg's, that are distinct from any other contender's.
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The more you put in initially, the sales pitch goes, the larger your daily return is.
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But a well-crafted resume acts as both a strong first-impression and a convincing sales pitch.
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More broadly, what was irresponsible or even irredeemable about the XFL became part of its sales pitch.
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The GOP's big 2018 midterms sales pitch isn't working out exactly how party leaders thought it would.
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It mostly amounts to an Instant Articles sales pitch—using Facebook as a publisher for your content.
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I thought — perhaps narrow-mindedly — that they could do better than a kit and a sales pitch.
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But those concerns have nothing to do with health and weight loss, clean eating's big sales pitch.
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Sometimes, it's an outright sales pitch issued by those most eager to see the robots en route.
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Even in the conversations that investors and entrepreneurs have during the startup founders' sales pitch for investment.
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After the bagels, muffins and coffee, the broker made his sales pitch — and Ms. Jusinski bought it.
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Think about what you would advise a friend or relative who asked you about the sales pitch.
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But Democrats considering this sales pitch should be very clear on what a Bloomberg presidency would mean.
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It was a sales pitch unlike any ever attempted by a woman running for president in America.
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Mr. Beck arrived at Mr. Sessions's fourth-floor Senate office building prepared to make a sales pitch.
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The website also touts France's science and technology sectors in an apparent sales pitch to American scientists.
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That included a sales pitch to Warren's office, which he said initially viewed it with some skepticism.
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Go into a deal or sales pitch believing that customers and clients have unlimited money to pay you.
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He'll need to use his existing relationships and expertise to present Google's best sales pitch to mobile carriers.
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What's wacky to me is that I think this sales pitch will work on a lot of people.
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LaCroix's early sales pitch focused on the kinds of women who had long been loyal to the drink.
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The sales pitch—a roadmap for life encoded in your very own DNA—can be hard to resist.
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Everyone wants to keep money flowing into their shows, so they'll utilize analytics to bolster their sales pitch.
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In Microsoft's sales pitch, limiting the ways in which users can download content is actually a net positive.
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As for Congress, they're going to get the hard-nosed sales pitch from the Trump regime this week.
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A recipe for a great theme song needs to begin with a clear first impression—a sales pitch.
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In this regard, Kasich and Biden, contra the implicit sales pitch, make for the most ordinary of bedfellows.
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Follow upAs important as it is, your initial sales pitch is just a small part of the process.
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But "tax reform will allow companies to buy back their own stock" is not a great sales pitch.
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No one likes to start a new relationship only to find they've been tricked into a sales pitch.
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A new sales pitch for solar Rooftop solar companies are tuning into this prepare-for-the-worst market.
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Sales pitch: If we all read the Miami Herald more often, we might have sensed that something was up.
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The sales pitch said art has a wonderful, intangible value — that it is above the whole sordid commercial world.
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The sales pitch from smugglers, combined with Trump's statements and policies, has helped drive the migration surge, Leutert said.
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On Thursday, and in October as a general rule, baseball subverts its sales pitch by embodying it so perfectly.
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In reality, the seminar was a sales pitch to attend a three-day seminar costing $1,495, the investigation found.
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But as every great business owner knows, a good sales pitch can make all the difference in the world.
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Nearly 75 such lookouts are available for rent, the sales pitch combining great views with a sense of history.
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" A source with direct knowledge of the event described the roundtable as an "opening sales pitch for tax reform.
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Both sides will be ratcheting up their sales pitch as the legislation makes its way to the House floor.
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Meet with the customer service team to hear their current processes so you can help refine your sales pitch.
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He added that the fact that many faux entrepreneurs are young themselves just makes their sales pitch more effective.
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Lenders suddenly have a strong sales pitch, now that rates are significantly lower than they were a year ago.
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Pressure Congress on immigration -- He plans to use this speech as a sales pitch for his immigration proposal.2.
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The sales pitch is editors can then select the most interesting bits around the track using just one camera.
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Still in bed, Velazquez, who had helped prepare Telemundo's sales pitch, struggled to absorb the welcome, but overwhelming, news.
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The soybean industry's sales pitch emphasized the reliability of American infrastructure and the political stability of the United States.
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The Nürburgring run is just another part of Porsche's full sales pitch for the final version of the car.
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So the sales pitch will focus more on Chinese cinema, which increasingly looks to novels and comics for inspiration.
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In 2009, President Barack Obama personally made the closing sales pitch for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympics.
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Indeed, the original sales pitch of the Apple Watch was an admission that something wasn't quite right in iPhoneland.
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Second, when open-source startups do have to make a real sales pitch, it's much easier to target potential buyers.
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All this means that female Republican candidates, already a rarity this year, have to make a pretty tough sales pitch.
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The "authentic" sales pitch for Beme was relatively ballsy coming from Neistat, who built his empire as a YouTube personality.
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And so Tuesday was quite simply Elon Musk's sales pitch to the world: If I build it, will you come?
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Tuesday's ultra-Silicon Valley sales pitch fit into the tradition perfectly: War is peace, freedom is slavery, Facebook is privacy.
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They seemed well-suited to an event that was itself a sort of hybrid—part intellectual forum, part sales pitch.
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Tesla offers a good sales pitch: Gorgeous cars, ludicrous acceleration, features like Autopilot that arrive via over the air updates.
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He'll also get a tsunami of small-dollar donations that will help his campaign in its sales pitch to superdelegates.
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Not only did it make the company a lot of money, but it also gave them a great sales pitch.
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So seekers of exports and jobs are getting an opposite and contradictory sales pitch from that to retailers and consumers.
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And with land values so high and profit margins so slim, developers have every incentive to hype the sales pitch.
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Degauss was at IFA with a sales pitch revolving around having a fully customizable three-button remote for Android smartphones.
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He honed his Mac sales pitch to the point of poetry — famously dubbing the Mac a 'bicycle for the mind'.
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You'll never have to listen to an annoying pharmacy phone call, sales pitch, or maybe even anyone's voice ever again.
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It was a sales pitch Trump accepted, aides say, in part because of his anger at the Republican-controlled Congress.
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See the pitch deck the Clearbanc team used to get traditional venture investors on board with its unconventional sales pitch.
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"I think there is an effect," he said, of the election, especially considering the building's sales pitch to foreign dignitaries.
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Neat idea, sure, but inevitably, The Frame by Samsung is still just a television wrapped in a fancy sales pitch.
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But however strained its sales pitch may have been, the Popular Front embraced a key insight that had eluded socialists.
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Infowars Life sales pitch #2: The government is suppressing this highly effective product because it competes with the pharmaceutical industry.
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At the same time, they acknowledge the limitations (so it doesn't descend into the relentless positivity of a sales pitch).
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"You have to reinvent retail," Kavana said, reducing the already empty platitudes of the sales pitch to impressive new depths.
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But as some costs come down, the possibility of a sales pitch in other areas is something to watch for.
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So he's got the experience that when the sales pitch isn't working, you tailor it to what the customer wants.
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Trump will use part of the speech as a sales pitch for the plan, according to a senior administration official.
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That's partly because the advertising world and mainstream cinema have long pilfered his aesthetic, turning it into a sales pitch.
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The ugly truth of the "drain the swamp" promise, is that it was nothing more than a hollow sales pitch.
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KERNEN: I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE A FULL THROATED SALES PITCH FOR THE UNITED STATES GOING BUSINESS THERE, RIGHT?
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Every man was 'a grand wee mon'whose every pitch was another sales pitch now every boat was a burned boat.
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But, Kenyon Jr. is hoping he can help steer Bronny in the right direction -- it's a pretty good sales pitch.
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Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, has made the company's stance part of his sales pitch, calling privacy a fundamental human right.
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Yogurt companies use that information in the sales pitch for their product, claiming it can help keep your gut bacteria happy.
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It says it is a white hat group, though it usually tries to hit up its targets with a sales pitch.
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Previously, no information passed between the two, a stance more in line with WhatsApp's original sales pitch as a privacy oasis.
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Whether it's running through a sales pitch in your head or avoiding negative conversations and language, others can adopt similar tactics.
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The sales pitch from GoPro is a unit that offers a much broader utility than you get with the average drone.
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When it's time for his hit on CNBC, Allen's analysis of Trump's psyche is essentially a sales pitch for his company.
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But Lynch is bullish on the idea that they are coming and has pushed it as part of their sales pitch.
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So it's potentially a much simpler and more broadly appealing sales pitch than a full-on 'smart access'/'smart lock' product.
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You'd think that finding yourself at the center of such a destructive online maelstrom wouldn't be much of a sales pitch.
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It is unlikely, in other words, that he will make a big Medicare privatization sales pitch that commands daily media attention.
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The sales pitch in South America shows that Hacking Team is back in business—or at least, it's trying to be.
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I know companies aren't my friends and that no major smartphone manufacturer makes performance-saving repairs part of their sales pitch.
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The commotion drew residents to the airport, where Ogg demonstrated the benefits of his white goods in a slick sales pitch.
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To Mr. Glaser, the slogan was appealing because it was less a sales pitch than an oath, a statement of belief.
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The rule's largely rhetorical protections risk luring Americans into misplaced trust and making the SEC complicit in the new sales pitch.
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Through "ho ho ho's," Santa made a Scientology sales pitch; he wanted me to take a Hubbard book home with me.
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This particular factory had been running since 2007, and also now makes fidget spinners and phone armbands, the sales pitch explained.
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Feature Tabitha Isner has been trying to make a nearly impossible sales pitch to voters — and to the national donor class.
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I know, I was also shook to learn MK was still in business when I got roped into a sales pitch.
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Really, Trump gave a sales pitch based on piecemeal information collated by his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
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"It seems like a simple thing" to make a sales pitch to customers who haven't gotten one before, Mr. Davis said.
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Her sales pitch cited her brother and laid out how a $500,000 investment could provide a coveted path to American citizenship.
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For any candidate to gain the trust of disillusioned Americans, however, it will take a lot more than a sales pitch.
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His sales pitch to the EU ahead of the crucial European Council summit on October 17th-18th rests on two arguments.
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With the rise of passive investing, their business model and sales pitch for active management have come under seemingly constant attack.
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Some people seem startled both by the awfulness of Mr. Ryan's plan and by the raw dishonesty of his sales pitch.
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Mr. Hastings's headline act — part sales pitch, part industry update — comes as Netflix's attention has increasingly turned to its overseas subscribers.
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Apple unveiled a series of potentially pricey subscription products and made safety a key part of its sales pitch for each.
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These are the people who are now most likely to get "a sales pitch dressed up as advice" from brokers, Roper says.
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Trump made a sales pitch Tuesday on Capitol Hill where he predicted House Republicans would get to the 216 votes they needed.
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While the poetic sales-pitch of the new logo certainly rings seductive, there's very little to fawn over in the actual product.
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The roar of the engines on Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighters overhead drowned out many a sales pitch on the ground.
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It's less of a retail space and more of a sales pitch to big businesses that operate in London and across Europe.
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That was Samsung's sales pitch when the company unveiled the Gear S3 last week at IFA, a 46mm case with smartwatch guts.
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Beyond Meat's sales pitch to customers has focused on the benefits of abstaining from meat: a healthier planet and a healthier lifestyle.
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Roughly 700 miles south, meanwhile, two powerful Republican senators from Texas sought to make their own sales pitch to Amazon last week.
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Battle Mountain, Nevada (CNN)Many Americans listened to the sales pitch of the nation's most powerful conservative voices during the last recession.
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Halfway through the video, titled "Why I resigned from Younique as a Purple Status," Evans's emotional explanation turns into a sales pitch.
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It's hard to emphasize the radical quality of Bamford's creation, but it's no surprise that it takes something of a sales pitch.
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After listening to the 2.0 sales pitch, Americans may feel like breaking out the bubbly and buying a new car or house.
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But part of Bragi's sales pitch has always been that it's not just offering headphones, but a smart assistant in your ear.
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However, the guide and sales pitch neglected to explain the true cost of the loan if the consumer renewed it multiple times.
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And for the rest of us, Rucker said we should consider raising our guard when stories become part of a sales pitch.
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" Trump's reputation as a real estate dynamo was an integral part of the initial sales pitch, as employees touted "The Trump Way.
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Ryan has been on a full-court media blitz to make the public sales pitch since the House GOP legislation was unveiled.
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Such stealth advertising may entertain or inform, yet it also brands, or more cleverly, facilitates a later branding exercise or sales pitch.
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After all, whatever the sales pitch, all of these products will provide relief for discomfort of all kinds, and for all genders.
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As a sales pitch for an undeniably popular program, "Q Ball" (filmed in 2018) builds a crescendo of hope and good will.
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Instead Truth shifted the focus from the product to the sales pitch and went on to remarkable success in reducing tobacco use.
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In particular, the sales pitch from the White House, which was intimately involved in the tax re-write, is considerably more energetic.
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"The best sales pitch to us is how they're going to find new ways to engage our fans in these telecasts," he said.
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Curry and Thompson were part of the contingent that sold Durant on the Warriors during a sales pitch in The Hamptons on Friday.
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Trump went out and trashed George W. Bush's record as president, slamming the Iraq War and the dishonest sales pitch for the war.
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Basically, this is what we thought it would all be, a sales pitch: "It's going to be a public-private partnership," Musk said.
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For instance, sending out a sales pitch that likens the deady Hurricane Matthew with a cyber attack is a dumb thing to do.
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The property developer's sales pitch comes against a backdrop of stuttering growth in Southeast Asia's second largest economy since a 2014 military coup.
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There wasn't an audience that publishers could see and the pitch's nerdy roots — not a game, but gameplay — was an ineffective sales pitch.
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Vendors have called in to report "emergency" incidents, then once they got past the company's gatekeepers, turned the "alert" into a sales pitch.
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Customers only care about what's in it for them, and a successful sales pitch zeroes in on how you'll make their life better.
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The unions have had their political supporters require new government employees to attend meetings at which they must endure a union sales pitch.
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Trump "always brings them up," Cramer told the Post, saying the president had been impressed by Fisher's aggressive sales pitch on Fox News.
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But the prospects were only part of the sales pitch for Cashman, who needed the approval of the team's principal owner, Hal Steinbrenner.
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" The Scientology sales pitch sounds odd when placed in the context of Santa, though the Church's spokesperson says, "Scientologists most definitely celebrate Christmas.
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Based on the sales pitch, these new wireless speakers can do anything a Sonos system can do and cost three times as much.
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Economic nationalism is not just an effective sales pitch; it has also allowed Ramdev to neatly sidestep attacks on his own business practices.
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Facebook's sales pitch — putting the right ad in front of the right person, thanks to the wonders of data technology — isn't exactly new.
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When you see him talk, it's clear that he's been obsessively honing and perfecting his sales pitch to the conservative base for years.
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But Sinclair's sales pitch was seen as so incredibly misleading that even the industry-allied FCC was forced to retreat from the deal.
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A pilot is a sales pitch; this is what the show's about, this is how you'll feel, this is who you'll root for.
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Ms. Holmes had drafted a spellbinding sales pitch and relentlessly pursued anyone — including her own employees — who doubted her new blood-testing machines.
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The Washington Post and New York Times reported that investors at the Beijing sales pitch saw Jared Kushner's celebrity status as a draw.
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Sit around long enough and you are bound to encounter a sales pitch that appeals to your proclivities, your decency or your insecurity.
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That's essentially the sales pitch of Facebook Dating: Facebook has more data on you, so they'll pair you up with a better match.
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So, the odds are that Trump will make his address into a sales pitch for Americans who have doubts about the tax cut.
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Mr. Morton was born in 1958, and his comfortable childhood in Northern California was a tutorial in how to make a sales pitch.
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"The more money RT spent, the bigger the reach to American voters that Twitter would provide," RT said, describing the Twitter sales pitch.
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A key part of the sales pitch entails curation — meaning that the app is not a free-for-all of random and unreliable outlets.
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Members of the conservative Freedom Caucus are heading to the White House at 10:30 am for a last minute sales pitch on healthcare.
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The sales pitch is not new: Continuum will allow users to ditch their laptop and phone and tablet and use just this one device.
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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump had a foreign policy sales pitch for U.S. voters and a blunt message for the world Wednesday: America comes first.
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The sales pitch is pretty strong: Pay this fee now and you won't have to worry too much about future repairs for Apple headphones.
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"This trip is both a love fest and a sales pitch," said Michael Kugelman, a senior associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center.
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But it has evidently not yet hit Son's target of $100BN as he used his MWC keynote as a sales pitch for additional partners.
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"You're not going to get a sales pitch that's disguised as advice," says Micah Hauptman, financial services counsel for the Consumer Federation of America.
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A giant billboard outside one such development, Golden Opulence, in Chennai's western exurbs, promises well-heeled buyers limitless water as a chief sales pitch.
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"According to the sales pitch, the new housing units would include low-income high-density housing apartments," read a slide that accompanied his speech.
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But, 20 years ago, it took a convincing sales pitch from legendary founder Steve Jobs before he agreed to take a job at Apple.
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San Francisco (CNN)The self-driving car industry has an irresistible sales pitch: Its technology can prevent car crashes and save thousands of lives.
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The album's liveliest and most urgent track is "If He Ain't Gonna Love You," a sales pitch in the guise of a rescue mission.
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Trump and Vice President Pence are also helping leadership with their sales pitch, meeting with conservative lawmakers to push them to back the bill.
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The socialist sideshow is hitting the road to tout their bad sales pitch to the American people during the debates in Detroit this week.
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Consumers can be easily overwhelmed by the available data and be unable to distinguish between good medical practices and a sales pitch, he said.
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It's a sales pitch that primarily props up Trump's fragile ego, with collateral damage of undermining voters' trust in the health of our democracy.
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These owners believe so deeply in these fixations of theirs as to have made them an increasingly large part of the league's sales pitch.
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Remember, if a vaccine becomes available, you won't hear about it for the first time through an email, online ad, or unsolicited sales pitch.
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The sales pitch — persuading Amrabat, a prodigiously gifted 22016-year-old, to commit to playing for the Netherlands internationally — had some built-in advantages.
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One group, unsurprisingly, has not appreciated La Maison & Velier's sales pitch as the mezcal of rum: those who produce and import Martinique rhum agricole.
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When Republicans passed a $25 trillion tax cut late last year, they envisioned it as a centerpiece of their sales pitch for the midterms.
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Her husband listened to the sales pitch from Lewis, who was showing him pictures on his cell phone of other customers in the village.
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And news of an investigation into a company he briefly ran complicated his squeaky-clean sales pitch — though he is not suspected of wrongdoing.
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Whether his phlegmatic sales pitch, coming in the final week before Super Tuesday, will be enough to lift him up remains to be seen.
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When Mars Wrigley called Mr. Booker about coming to Newark, he directed them to Mr. Baraka, and the two made the sales pitch together.
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"When he finished his sales pitch, I explained to him that being poor meant there were lots of things I couldn't afford," she wrote.
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"Take an inventory about what's especially relevant in your skill base to your employer, and basically build a sales pitch for yourself," he said.
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Messages about empowering women have been woven into her sales pitch, which blends inspirational mottos with "shop this look" appeals on her website, ivankatrump.com.
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But Army leaders say that all they need to attract enlistees in those cities are a surge of recruiters and the right sales pitch.
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The bankers must have been nervous, but Trump made a great sales pitch — he even promised to put Ivanka in charge of the project.
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Facebook's sales pitch: Most people already know how to use Facebook, so you won't spend time or resources teaching employees how to use Workplace.
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Carpinello, however, used that as a sales pitch to get her in the ring, saying, "Or, you can make people bleed, and that's more fun."
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Many employees of the energy giant bought into the company's sales pitch so much that they put all of their retirement savings in its stock.
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Promises of social justice and racial equity successfully used to sell legalization are now looked upon with suspicion as a hollow and cynical sales pitch.
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This is the sales pitch of the Church of Amazon, the retail cult with the modest ambition of controlling all commerce in the known universe.
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Below are six dos and don'ts for giving a great sales pitch, based on feedback Lemonis and Simple Greek VP Sam Lundy gave the entrepreneurs.
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With the introduction of the iPhone SE, Apple's sales pitch was essentially that you could get the same basic phone in three different form factors.
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Besides, even if your favorite celebrity's name and face are on the sales pitch, that does not mean he or she is involved at all.
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Tl;dr: DeepMind's sales pitch to grease the NHS health data funnel is that AI could automate efficiency savings for a chronically cash-strapped NHS.
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Artificial intelligence that, the sales pitch invariably goes, can instantly spot any malware on a network, guide incident response, and detect intrusions before they start.
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But they lacked the intensity of Cruz's professed disdain for Washington, which was his other big sales pitch, made at its moment of maximum potency.
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A young lawyer, who seemed to have consumed a large quantity of the coffee, stood at the front of the room, delivering her sales pitch.
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To hear the sales pitch for Wilderness Therapy, to watch Second Nature's videos, it is easy to believe they promise a version of this story.
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Foreign diplomats were gathered at Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. last week to hear a sales pitch, the Washington Post reported on Nov. 18.
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Car rental insuranceIf you&aposve ever rented a car, chances are you&aposve been subject to a pretty aggressive sales pitch for buying additional insurance.
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The latest twist could very well unravel the strong economic growth that has been a highlight of the President's sales pitch for his 2020 reelection.
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Left out of the sales pitch is whether the college is committed to supporting broad-based intellectual inquiry, both in and out of the classroom.
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Go deeper: Saudi Aramco revs up IPO sales pitch Saudi Aramco's shrinking IPO Aramco Valued at $1.7 Trillion in World's Biggest IPO (Wall Street Journal)
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"All communities deserve access to smart, affordable mobility," reads the sales pitch for Lime, an electric scooter company with a valuation of around $28500 billion.
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"President-elect Trump loves Christmas and makes a point of proudly saying 'Merry Christmas' every chance he gets," a sales pitch for the decoration read.
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Subscription traps have grown so lucrative and ubiquitous that they've become a major problem for the celebrities whose images are critical to the sales pitch.
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Products like this don't always live up to their sales pitch, and it's often best to wait and see what the final version looks like.
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The money in England now is so great that the Champions League is little more than a slide from a sales pitch to prospective signings.
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"Fielding a sales pitch from a friend can be supremely awkward, especially since it's often disguised as a social event," said etiquette blogger Maggie McAlister.
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Ryan has been on a full-court media blitz to make the public sales pitch since the House GOP legislation was unveiled early this week.
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Come to Miami and be the next Rodney McGruder may one day become the sales pitch that encapsulates why they spread the message they do.
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Trump, after spending weeks largely hands off on the health care bill, has begun to get into the day-to-day sales pitch of the bill.
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In a recent phone sales pitch, a telemarketer eagerly promoted projects in cities near Beijing, including earthquake-prone Tangshan, which has a poor record on pollution.
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A first-time restaurateur just needs to get his or her financials in order and craft a sales pitch to sell a landlord on the investment.
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Key to the Brexit sales pitch before the referendum was that, on leaving the EU, Britain would be able to have the best of both worlds.
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It's not likely that early access to tickets would convince someone to subscribe to Amazon Prime, though that's the sales pitch featured on the Jumanji website.
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China's ancient heritage stands at the centre of its sales pitch to the world, too: becoming "a socialist cultural superpower" is now an official national goal.
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"That may sound like a great sales pitch, but in reality you have to evaluate the data, and that says a lot of people don't know."
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Spicer played coy about Trump's level of personal involvement in the ObamaCare push moving forward but said the White House would keep up its sales pitch.
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The main target for Jolla's Sailfish sales pitch now is countries seeking a non-US-controlled mobile platform on which they can build a services strategy.
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Democrats plan to turn that message into a prominent sales pitch for their candidates and surrogates, and could make it the theme of ads as well.
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Below are his tips for nailing a sales pitch, including selecting your prospects strategically, asking the right questions, and learning to anticipate and even welcome objections.
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But he doesn't exactly leave the impression of a high-powered lawyer; he's half-shaved and disheveled, and his presentation reads as a huckster's sales pitch.
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The IOC's Evaluation Commission will hear a well-worn sales pitch during a three-day visit that will provide a firsthand glimpse at the LA2024 vision.
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As a company that has primarily been focused on marketers, Engagio now has the challenge of transitioning their sales pitch over to sales teams as well.
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ABC had ordered a new season that was expected to run for 13 episodes and had touted the comedy in a recent sales pitch to advertisers.
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For example, a video by Andrea Fraser, on view here, enacts a gallery tour cum sales pitch that is a pastiche of art criticism and theory.
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The idea that she could dissociate herself from that sales pitch by "stepping back" from the company when she went to Washington was always patently silly.
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The whole sales pitch for the Trump tax plan rests on the claim that everything is different because we're now part of a global financial market.
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In fact, according to state documents, in May of 2016, an Arizona company sent a sales-pitch letter for nitrogen gas executions to Nebraska corrections officials.
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It essentially functions as a 30-minute sales pitch for the show, but offers a fascinating look at the 80,000-pound rotating stage and other wizardry.
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The planes are so similar, the sales pitch went, that airlines could avoid extensive and costly training for pilots who flew earlier versions of the 737.
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But there was another key element of the George W. Bush administration's sales pitch for the war — the notion that it would be cheap and easy.
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Rather than have someone in the McIlroy camp make a cold call to McLoughlin, Fitzgerald took him to play golf and made the initial sales pitch.
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The prime responsibility for that sales pitch shifts from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.).
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In his sales pitch, the merchant said that the rug I had chosen could function as a "passe-partout," framing any room to enhance its appeal.
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There's a booming Antarctic tourism industry, and many of the companies involved make their sales pitch by appealing to a sense of righteousness in possible vacationers.
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"I'm here to tell you about fantastic opportunity, opportunity that will leave you rich beyond your wildest dreams," goes the sales pitch in heavily-accented English.
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Leave it to a Hollywood producer to unload his $100 million mansion with the SEXIEST video sales pitch ever -- complete with semi-naked women ... touching each other.
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The DeepMind Health sales pitch is evolving from 'you need this app' to 'you need this AI'… With the follow on push to 'give us your data'.
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A beautiful phone on day one makes a nice sales pitch, but keeping it beautiful a year later is what makes customers happy in the long run.
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In the meantime, he has embarked on the biggest sales pitch of his life, seeking to persuade us that he should be president of the United States.
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Eich's sales pitch to users is simple: block the ads that slow down your browser and invade your privacy, while still financially supporting the websites you love.
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Indeed, his public sales pitch for the bill cast it as a chore delaying his ability to start working on the tax-cut plan he values more.
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His sales pitch to world markets, and a raft of private meetings that will bookend it, is expected to focus on his planned infrastructure and technology investments.
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The TV industry is constantly trying to find ways to entice people to upgrade their old sets, and CES is its biggest sales pitch of the year.
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They talked about leadership and military history, then moved on to Amazon's sales pitch on why the Defense Department should make a radical shift in its computing.
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I want you to keep in mind that this is not a sales pitch; it is a creative and succinct way to generate interest in the listener.
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Its sales pitch is interoperability with "every" third-party meeting/conferencing technology, atop a fully owned and operated global video comms network, called the StarLeaf OpenCloud platform.
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After serving in the Army, Mr. Baylis, an excellent swimmer, sold swimming pools, sometimes diving from 10 feet into shallow water as part of the sales pitch.
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With its colossal acquisition of LinkedIn this morning, Microsoft gets an immediate, powerful asset for its software sales pitch: A social dataset of 400 million-plus users.
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It is a sales pitch to younger voters and will likely remain popular — at least until the public really understands what an expensive wrecking ball it is.
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The other night, Conte says, he hosted a dinner in Los Angeles for "10 huge creators," which doubled, informally, as both market research and a sales pitch.
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"As the Dow nosedives on his watch, the President's rambling, deceitful tax scam sales pitch reached an all-time low in Cincinnati," Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said.
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And as he has made his sales pitch directly to a host of influential Afghans, he has frequently been introduced as an adviser to Mr. Trump himself.
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The email said it was not a sales pitch and did contain an ethics agreement, but he still felt it was a clear example of quid-pro-quo.
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They can choose to sit and surf the internet or they can agree to listen to a soft sales pitch as they sip their free cup of coffee.
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Diversity has also become something of a sales pitch for big asset managers like BlackRock Inc and State Street Corp, the largest and third-largest U.S. asset managers.
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Trucking companies are increasing competing to offer faster delivery service to customers willing to pay a premium ("Trucking company's new sales pitch: speed", Wall Street Journal, April 11).
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But that sales pitch has been rejected by the voters the party needs to survive into the future—millennials, young African Americans and Latinos, and the working class.
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They say that competitors can use the info that Facebook's transparency policy provides — from its sales pitch to the products they promote — to reverse-engineer their marketing strategy.
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Not only should you never experience gnarly, post-facial skin, but you also shouldn't endure pain, a hard sales pitch on products, or other iffy (but widespread) practices.
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"It was almost a sales pitch," recalled Herrera Beutler, who couldn't believe how hard it was to convince this doctor -- any doctor -- to do something so simple medically.
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The sales pitch for Stadia is a strong one on the surface: You can play the biggest games with the highest visual settings without buying any new hardware.
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Trump invited a half dozen leaders from outside conservative groups to meet with him in the Oval Office, part of his ramped-up sales pitch for the bill.
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That sales pitch has gotten fans so excited that more than 27 million of them have pledged more than $186 million to help make the game a reality.
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Hollywood companies want to build video platforms that can compete with Netflix and Amazon, and part of their sales pitch to consumers involves access to "deep library" titles.
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Part of the sales pitch for Tax Reform 2.0 will undoubtedly be a claim that wage growth skyrocketed after and because of passage of the original tax reform.
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"The casual dishonesty of taking Leader Pelosi's words out of context is nothing compared to the dishonesty of Republicans' sales pitch on their tax scam itself," he said.
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Our takeaways (and some of Wednesday's best photos): He stuck to the script, reusing familiar lines and boiling down the Trump campaign's message into a neat sales pitch.
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But, as always, he has only his empty sales pitch to offer — "I'm with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you," he says.
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Sustainability, even if less at the forefront than in Lyft's similar efforts, was a key tenet of Uber's sales pitch to investors when it went public in May.
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At a recent event, the journalist Atossa Abrahamian described accompanying a Luxembourgian delegation to an asteroid-mining company's headquarters and listening to a sales pitch on legal loopholes.
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And if all of this sounds like a sales pitch, sorry, but I do really love Rocket League—and I'm far from alone in the UK VICE office.
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Fewer hangovers is also the sales pitch at Adriaen Block, a bar in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens that whips up CBD-infused negronis and old-fashioned cocktails.
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The company initially had set sights for its content in the world of retail, and it wasn't exactly coming at the market with the world's best sales pitch.
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The sales pitch for CDDs is that developers can sell lots more cheaply, and because people's property is supposed to appreciate, they won't notice the extra missing cash.
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Again, it's just a chance for them to sell you more stuff so I prefer to wander around the store and not get sucked into the sales pitch.
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If you come across a retail card offer when you're doing your holiday shopping, be sure to make sense of the fine print, not just the sales pitch.
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On Sunday evening, Rhodes was forced to defend the administration's sales pitch on the nuclear agreement and deny that it had misled eager journalists and think tank experts.
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It becomes more obvious that they fear losing the wedge issues and the sales pitch to their base more than the success of the average middle-class American.
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"Their sales pitch was that because of who Barcelo was at UPS, he could make sure your package will make it out without anyone finding it," Kaderly said.
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It reminds us that the ultra-wealthy generally don't live up to the sales pitch that they, Hollywood and the Republican Party have collectively tried to sell us.
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Trump's U.S.-centric sales pitch at Davos and Republicans' efforts to boost defense spending are powerful drivers for military hardware makers like Lockheed, the "Mad Money" host said.
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Not only is Germany exactly the right messenger, it would also be doing the United States a tremendous favor by helping to correct trade's aforementioned poor sales pitch.
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According to Dan D'Antoni, easing the physical burden that Anthony had carried was part of his brother's sales pitch when Anthony arrived in New York in early 2011.
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If Microsoft is able to make them work and put together a solid sales pitch, it could start a new trend that other phone and tablet makers follow.
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The Peloton sales pitch is polished and appealing in that Apple sort of way, and although I realize that metaphor is overused, it works uniquely well in this case.
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This was my first time getting a sales pitch for a multilevel marketing company, but it wasn't the first time I had heard about this kind of recruitment tactic.
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The Swiss tech company behind this stylish but low-tech phone trumpets a sales pitch that conjures the aspirational vanity lurking in us all: Offline is the new luxury.
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It's way more affordable, and given how important the price point is to Google's overall sales pitch here, it could very well be the meaning of the lettered designation.
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Jamie Woodcock, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, says the sales pitch from Mira is a continuation of Big Tech's interest in on-demand cleaning and domestic work.
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I always tell people, and it might seem like a sales pitch, but if they really want to brighten up a space, adding a plant or flowers really helps.
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Neither of the actresses has had to stress too much over a sales pitch because the network execs are coming straight to them at Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine productions office.
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Yes, but: Users don't even think about where their data is stored, and Apple's sales pitch may become increasingly irrelevant as the cloud becomes even fuzzier at the edges.
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Underpinning Tether's sales pitch is the proposition that its coins were backed 1-to-1 by fiat currency—in other words, one Tether is one dollar because iFinex Inc.
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Despite the presence of the Soryu submarine and a well-attended media tour, Japan's Chief of Staff Commander Fleet Escort Force insisted the exercise was not a sales pitch.
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But he changes his sales pitch as easily as his socks: in a speech after winning seven out of 11 states, he stopped snarling and tried to sound presidential.
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The idea with Yeay is to make the whole sales pitch and purchase on its app, without linking users through to other websites or services to seal the deal.
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But the company is already jacking up prices for its streaming TV customers, something AT&T repeatedly stated wouldn't happen during the company's sales pitch for the controversial deal.
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A gun safety group was in talks to participate in an a featured editorial video story on Snapchat last year when it was hit with an alarming sales pitch.
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What follows this teaser is a (comparably) slower sales pitch, one that features the same footage, but takes time to explain what is happening in the scenes and why.
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Mr. da Silva's sales pitch has benefited from several years of political and economic turmoil in Brazil, where some of the country's elite are rushing to move money offshore.
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And with the Republican nominee basing his campaign on his background as a businessman, Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire media executive and philanthropist, may help counter the Trump sales pitch.
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During his sales pitch, one of the water softener salesmen tried to convince me that my kids would get cancer from the chloramine in the water in my town.
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Editorial Staffing his administration is the first test of Donald Trump's sales pitch to Americans: that his career running companies will make him a better president than any politician.
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So if the sales pitch is coming from the athletes they admire or the bands they like, they as a generation could set off the process of normalizing it.
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Mr. Moon based his sales pitch on the belief that Mr. Kim wants to become the North Korean equivalent of Deng Xiaoping, who oversaw the economic liberalization of China.
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Jonathan Metzl, a professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University who has studied gun violence, said this sales pitch has become ingrained in how some men see themselves.
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Will we be served by fleets of gleaming robots, using built-in facial recognition technology to adjust each sales pitch to a person's current mood or past spending preferences?
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Vice President Pence plans to travel to Louisville, Ky., on Saturday as the White House ramps up its sales pitch for the GOP proposal to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "New Sales Pitch by Democrats, for Audience of Trump Voters" (front page, July 25): Democrats searching for a new slogan need search no further.
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A number of the Democratic governors pressing for a stronger sales pitch on jobs are seen as potential presidential candidates, among them Mr. Inslee, Ms. Raimondo and Mr. Hickenlooper.
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But the sales pitch from the freshmen — who said the legislation was critical to them holding onto the majority next year — and senior Democrats Tuesday helped deliver the support.
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A former Twitter employee said the sales pitch to RT is similar to what the company uses to lure advertisers to Twitter, which has struggled to turn a profit.
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This is literally the sales pitch on YouTube TV's website, and it's appealing to anyone who likes to watch TV the old fashioned way, without all the old fashioned annoyances.
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They weren't under any illusions about Summoner being a real political influence outfit, but Rokar had perfected the message they needed: artificial intelligence, hidden persuasion, the whole Summoner sales pitch.
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Many retail investors have ended up on regional spot exchanges as commodity trading firms ratcheted up their sales pitch, with cold calls from sales representatives promising double-digit monthly returns.
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The Finnish startup's b2b licensing sales pitch is intended to appeal to corporates and governments that want to be able to control their own destiny where device software is concerned.
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The company has already gotten nods from celebrity moms like Eva Chen and Tyra Banks (apparently they do stuff?) and is pushing out its clothes with a novel sales pitch.
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CES could fill an encyclopedia with all the jargon that gets thrown around, but there's always one white-hot term that every company wants to include in its sales pitch.
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To alleviate the future-shock and potential loneliness, he suggests that people "get their friends and family to join," which is both a good point and a convenient sales pitch.
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Watch for Trump to take his tax reform sales pitch on the road in August — with some top aides looking to stage a series of speeches through the Rust Belt.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan will head to the Buckeye State during this week's Congressional recess to begin his sales pitch for tax reform, according to a source with direct knowledge.
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Bitcoin was also sold as a way of reaching the poor and unbanked, and investors who came to Africa would sometimes blend their sales pitch with an ounce of evangelicalism.
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Vicente previously told jurors that Raniere's recruits came to view him as "some kind of god," thanks to a sales pitch that portrayed him as a genius of unparalleled insight.
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The sales pitch for a smartphone is a lot more straightforward than for a smartwatch and there isn't really a compelling reason for most people have one in their lives.
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It is a low bar; but being demonstrably sane, competent and able to refrain from publicly envisaging her opponent's murder is now at the heart of Mrs Clinton's sales pitch.
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But then there are scam calls, in which fraudsters will illegally call you and attempt to get your credit card number using a fake sales pitch or even a threat.
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Trump both passed the buck and smashed the anti-abortion movement's most basic sales pitch: that their war is about protecting fully developed fetuses from being murdered in the womb.
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Since taking office, Trump has demonstrated an insatiable appetite for selling American weaponry abroad -- at times using face-to-face meetings with foreign leaders to make a personal sales pitch.
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Opening in June 1940, the initial temptation is to dismiss Lindbergh as a joke, reasoning that the country won't fall for his "It is between Lindbergh, and war!" sales pitch.
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Most everything in "Mary Poppins Returns" looks, feels and sounds like a sales pitch, with the exception of Whishaw's emotional rawness, which creates jagged little holes in the manufactured uplift.
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He called Mr. Max "America's painter laureate" and started in on a sales pitch for "Umbrella Man," a florid silhouette of the back of a bulbous man in the rain.
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Go deeper: CEOs under more pressure to save society What Corporate America is doing about guns Social good is the new sales pitch Radioactive presidency: Trump is poison for brands
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Tesla's sales pitch for choosing the rental option is that it will be cheaper, quicker, and less burdensome for homeowners to get solar panels on their roof at the outset.
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Part lecture series, part sales pitch, it would bring together entrepreneurs and experts in development, regulation, governance, security, infrastructure, and technology from across Africa, as well as from Silicon Valley.
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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia evidently also saw it as a chance to make a sales pitch, or at least enjoy a joke, at the expense of the West.
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Add to this the reduced battery drain from running fewer propellers and the drone's compact form when the two arms are folded, and you have a pretty convincing sales pitch.
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For now, let's put aside the fact that "queens and concubines [who used the eggs] to stay in shape for emperors" may be an offensive sales pitch to some women.
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To really make the sales pitch, Trump had an F-35 jet fly low over the White House lawn on Wednesday afternoon as Duda, Trump, and their wives looked on.
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With the premiere of I'm Sorry's Season 2 this past Wednesday, here is my best sales pitch on why Savage's remarkably delightful series should be your next laugh-out-loud binge.
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For Bellissimo, the WEG provided the opportunity to make a two-week global sales pitch for the newest addition to his equestrian empire that includes facilities in Wellington, Florida and Denver.
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But a controversy at YouTube, an online-video site owned by Google, shows how digital advertising still has problems to sort out before it lives up to the dazzling sales pitch.
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A nice touch at the end of the very brief walk through the Psychasec sales pitch was the provision of an "aftercare gel" for the sleeve you might have just purchased.
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The SEC accused S&P of publishing a false and misleading "sales pitch" touting the strength of its revamped 2012 criteria, while allegedly lowering its standards to drum up more revenue.
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Her other hope is that the interpretation methodology developed through the project will help lawyers and law firms to navigate the legal tech that's coming at them as a sales pitch.
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The sales pitch is that this is not just virtual reality, it's hyper reality, and all the reviews so far have testified to an experience that lives up to this moniker.
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Throw in the added benefit of the charging clip pulling double duty as an external battery, adding four hours of juice to the Freedom and the sales pitch gets even sweeter.
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"We understand innovation is nothing without security," said Guo, segwaying from making a sales pitch for Huawei's 5G network solutions straight into the giant geopolitical security question looming over the conference.
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Her sales pitch was in truth a politer version of Mr Trump's: a promise that America could be made strong again by putting a savvy deal-maker in the Oval Office.
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Black with swampy-green lettering could have been a programmer for any number of midrange apps, begrudgingly donning the uniform necessary for a sales pitch in some aggressively extroverted convention center.
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The pitch: Primary's sales pitch to parents is that it offers essential basic styles, in bright colors, and without the hassles of logos and slogans that are often banned by schools.
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The GOP sales pitch for Medicare privatization rests on the promise (unsupportable in the long run) that they won't touch benefits as they exist today for anyone in or near retirement.
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"Whenever two guys get in there and start throwing punches, anything is possible"—something White actually said in response to scrolling text—is the most desperate sales pitch in combative sports.
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Many of us have a conception of a sales pitch as being like a spiel or mini-presentation in which the salesperson talks while the customer listens and makes a decision.
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That's a vastly different market for the company, whose main sales pitch in Singapore has been to offer a "fully digital" experience of signing up online and picking a phone plan.
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The services, which reside somewhere between shrink session and sales pitch, intend to address the concerns of families unsure about leaving the city and guide them to suburbia, step by step.
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Even if their current solution isn't a good one, the sales pitch for change is much harder in a "batten down the hatches" world than a "shoot for the stars" one.
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That's essentially the sales pitch from German auto-maker Mercedes-Benz for its new Marco Polo camper van, which includes several smart features that can be controlled via a smartphone app.
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The dressing room's N.H.L. past is part of the sales pitch by Thomas Adrahtas, Robert Morris's coach, when he tries to recruit players to a program many have never heard of.
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There have also been gaffes, like the one made last week by senior aide Kellyanne Conway, when she delivered a sales pitch for Ivanka Trump's fashion line from the briefing room.
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The 25G sales pitch is everywhere at Mobile World Congress: It can be up to 24 times faster than 25G, and huge numbers of devices can connect to the network simultaneously.
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This is the kind of sales pitch that might come from a concerned friend, clearly her brand mission, and Paltrow herself continues to make a connection and resonate with Goop fans.
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"I can imagine the sales pitch about how lucky the LPs are to get a chance to provide leverage for their own investment, but I doubt I'd be convinced," Marks said.
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Trump first tweeted a portion of Buchanan's piece that mentions crimes committed by undocumented immigrants — a favorite topic of Trump's when he's been making his sales pitch for the wall lately.
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GUTFELD: We&aposve got to run, but Walter, do you think that he&aposs being too deferential or is this an obvious sales pitch that we all know what he&aposs doing?
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Juicero's sales pitch is that using a conventional juicer is too much work: preparing the fruit is a hassle, and then you have to clean both the machine and your kitchen afterward.
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But where he breaks from the mold is in the sheer quantity of things he seems to say for no reason at all, utterly outside the context of a planned sales pitch.
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But the cycle passes and we go on, the key players in the industry certainly go on, in meeting rooms or backstage, making more deals and aligning a sales pitch with talent.
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The biggest single sporting event in the world is usually used as a TV sales pitch every four years for manufacturers, and this time we're finally getting the latest and greatest technology.
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Making light of the tragedy for a tacky sales pitch is not one of them, obviously — but that didn't stop one Texas mattress store from sharing a staggeringly offensive, unfathomably disrespectful commercial.
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NASA is doubling down on its sales pitch for any extraterrestrials interested in adopting our world—on April 26th, it'll partner with Amazon to broadcast the first 4K live stream from space.
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"Nobody wants to work all night on a 22008 page book (sales pitch) and then see it thrown into recycling – and there is no reason for that to ever happen", said Dean.
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Keep in mind Trump's closing sales pitch in the last months of the 2018 campaign was that the migrants posed a threat to America and only the GOP could keep us safe.
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It's possible to imagine that, among red-state governments staffed by officials with similar sentiments, Blockchain Technologies could find receptive ears for its sales pitch of protecting against ostensibly ubiquitous election fraud.
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The first four phrases are scripted so as to encourage the telemarketers to begin their sales pitch and the last 12 phrases are played in a loop until the telemarketer hangs up.
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He spends the entire episode trying to kiss her and loops everyone at work — including Jim and Pam, who are doing the sales pitch for her — into very reluctantly giving him advice.
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So goes the irresistible sales pitch of sexy rewards and perks that many credit card issuers make to an American public enamored of both travel and what looks like a good deal.
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The June 1954 issue of Der Spiegel featured Mr. Graham on the cover with mischievous eyes and a mouth pursed in what could be a sales pitch as much as a sermon.
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Despite the alluring sales pitch of "a buy button for real estate" — Mr. Kelman's go-to descriptor — Redfin Direct is considerably more complicated than e-commerce sites hawking socks or dish soap.
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While Juul's sales pitch has always been about helping people quit smoking, the product has been widely criticized for potentially creating an entirely new population of vape users who were never smokers.
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"A Medicare MSA may be advantageous to a sophisticated person with a spreadsheet, but it's a difficult sales pitch," said Rob Pipich, a principal and consulting actuary for Milliman in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
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Since taking office, President Donald Trump has demonstrated an insatiable appetite for selling American weaponry abroad -- at times using face-to-face meetings with foreign leaders to make a personal sales pitch.
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Iraq will also try to sell savings bonds in the coming months to Iraqi citizens, in an effort to raise more than $4 billion, and appeal to national unity in its sales pitch.
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Privacy is, again, at the center of Apple's sales pitch Apple is launching its own login platform called Sign in with Apple, which will let you log in to outside apps with FaceID.
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An Apple tablet computerPrice$330 LikeWorks fine, costs not much moneyNo LikeNot much RAM, crap cameraBefore diving right in, I should admit that Apple's sales pitch for the new iPad worked on me.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a sometimes-goofy presentation style that's a million miles from Steve Jobs' polished sales pitch, but it's undeniable that both have been massively influential ambassadors for their brands.
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His sales pitch has evolved little since the day he began his campaign, and he made no effort Thursday night to project the comportment or depth of knowledge that voters view as presidential.
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Kushner's comments indicate he wants to "drive a wedge between the Palestinian people and their leadership and in so doing may make the sales pitch for his future plan even harder," Swan writes.
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It's been reported that, when 100 foreign diplomats convened at the Trump International Hotel last week, they heard a sales pitch about staying in the hotel to curry favor with the new president.
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The speech this year comes a day after his administration plans to unveil its final budget proposal, and it is expected Obama will made a sales pitch for the plan during his visit.
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At the time, Lamm's spokesperson Michael Fragin said allegations of impropriety reeked of anti-Semitism and that the business proposal was little more than a sales pitch designed to appeal to Hasidic buyers.
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So Shine will likely need to pick up the pace on the sales pitch front if it's going to hit a target of being within reach of "hundreds of millions" by year's end.
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Sala's sales pitch for Milan includes the city's attractive lifestyle and convenient location, as well as the former Expo trade fair area he believes would make an ideal location for the EU bodies.
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"The biggest thing to look out for is if you're getting a high-pressure sales pitch that may be an indicator the program might not be on the up and up," Ashe said.
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Clinton, who praised Mr. Sanders and his supporters with her victory speech on Tuesday night, while delivering an aggressive denunciation of Mr. Trump that doubled as a sales pitch for the general election.
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The program attracted prospective students with a free seminar, widely advertised in newspapers and through direct mail, that was effectively "a sales pitch for a three-day seminar costing $1,495," the suit says.
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They broadcast his role in the administration as part of a real estate sales pitch in Beijing, touting a controversial program that grants foreigners American visas in exchange for investments in development projects.
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" Ms. Pelosi fired back quickly, saying through her spokesman, Drew Hammill, "As the Dow nosedives on his watch, the president's rambling, deceitful tax scam sales pitch reached an all-time low in Cincinnati.
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Bucs GM Jason Licht said that in his first phone call with Tom Brady, Brady was actually the one giving THEM the sales pitch on why he should go to Tampa Bay. pic.twitter.
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With libertarian Austin Petersen her only declared foe, McCaskill's sales pitch back home focuses less on her votes in the gridlocked Senate and more on her less-heralded bipartisan achievements — opioid oversight included.
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Stripped near-nude, Choudhury delights chat-show audiences as he gives his sales pitch about the myriad benefits of the particular sequence of yoga postures and breathing exercises he claims to have invented.
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Bayonne's sales pitch to its citizens illustrates the bold steps town officials can take — including making promises that are at odds with the actual terms of the deal — to attract private equity money.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Embattled prime minister Theresa May's Brexit sales pitch won plaudits from the British business community on Monday, but executives said the political drama surrounding her survival was proving a damaging distraction.
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And despite the myth of the door-slamming homeowner or the vicious attack dog in the yard, Tucker thinks most people are receptive to the in-person sales pitch (this sounds like my nightmare).
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LOS ANGELES — Tom Bergeron, the host of the ABC reality show "Dancing With the Stars," looked into the camera at the start of a recent Disney-themed episode and made a forceful sales pitch.
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The Founder opens with Michael Keaton as Kroc delivering a strained sales pitch for a milkshake mixer directly to the camera with all the sweaty, unctuous desperation of Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross.
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Apple's stated ambition is to create the best magazine-reading experience on a mobile device, which echoes the original sales pitch that Steve Jobs presented when launching the first iPad way back in 2010.
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Our thought bubble: For Univision, and for all network TV companies, one difficult aspect of its sales pitch will be its renewed focus on live, as cable operators get pickier about carrying expensive channels.
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Of course, it will face tough competition between now and then, since major airlines all offer some form of "basic economy" fare that threatens the "ultra-low cost" sales pitch of companies like Spirit.
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She drops out of Stanford the next year and begins building the company through the sales pitch that it could detect health problems with just a few drops of blood from a finger prick.
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It was fascinating to watch the one-time Arkansas governor, who ran as an "outsider" for president in 1992, give a sales pitch to voters to support his wife, the ultimate insider for president.
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Trump's attorneys showed the judge the actual prospectus that specifically detailed the licensing terms of the project and that the project developer was not Donald J. Trump, no matter what the sales pitch said.
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This weekend, Ford has partnered with Escape the Room creator Victor Blake to set up an Escape the Room scenario that also acts as a soft sales pitch/test drive for the Ford Escape.
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Instead, players line outside the theater for a prerecorded sales pitch of the game's features, while trailers for the game loop on humongous, beautiful mode screens that are scaffolded onto the retro city block.
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Sales is an ethical pursuit, he writes — and a successful sales pitch is much less about showmanship and high-pressure tactics than it is about empathy and listening to what your customer actually needs.
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It resounds in the carnival barks of entrepreneurs, from P.T. Barnum to a certain real-estate-and-reality-TV magnate, who these days can be heard booming his sales pitch across the presidential trail.
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When she ventured back to greet reporters, she held up a copy of the book, and, like a sales pitch on TV, reminded the news media that the policy book hits stores on Tuesday.
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GOP midterm messaging: The Hill: In case the GOP tax law alone is not a strong enough sales pitch to mobilize conservative voters in November, Republicans in Congress are devising a backup PR plan.
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But the whole sales pitch behind Mayweather-McGregor is size and scope and spectacle, so it just wouldn't do for the fight to go off at the MGM Grand, with its paltry 16,800 seats.
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This feeling was reinforced during many of the larger presentations, particularly Elon Musk's keynote speech and Lockheed Martin's presentation on Mars Base Camp, both of which felt like a big sales pitch to NASA.
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At McLaren, the combination of a broader business — McLaren Applied Technologies, a separate technology company linked with the race team — and a rich racing legacy has been a core element of the sales pitch.
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Martha Sanchez, a local leader with the advocacy group La Unión del Pueblo Entero, has a different approach: bingo games, popular in colonias, accompanied by a census sales pitch and census-themed bingo cards.
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We believe that making these funds available to masses would greatly improve investors' experiences and enable them to get the best-interest advice they need instead of a sales pitch from their financial advisors.
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A few weeks later, Magid returned, armed with business cards and a corporate-speak sales pitch, presenting herself as the Head Security Ornamentation Professional at System Azure, a company that she had made up.
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Google has already perfected the sales pitch, it already knows how to talk and appeal to its customers — but that slick sheen on the surface has to be backed up by a trustworthy operational backbone.
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"I also created a quick video so I could send a link with my email," Francois says, detailing a sales pitch that he sent out to roughly 20 people in the week before Christmas 2012.
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"That gets a higher yield in terms of students showing up, and they leave with an impression that we value them and their growth, as opposed to it just being a sales pitch," she said.
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Mr Son's sales pitch on how he could use the kingdom's wealth to grab a stake in future technologies, rather than buying the usual Western trophy assets, saw him leave with a pledge of $45bn.
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As it happens, that's around the same time the White House aide turned a Fox & Friends interview into a bizarre sales pitch for the line in what officials say was a clear breach of ethics.
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They're coalescing around a carrot-and-stick approach that combines a morally obscene sales pitch and an aggressive squeeze play, meant to cow squeamish Republicans and far-right hardliners into submission before the window closes.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will take her Brexit sales pitch to Scotland on Wednesday where she will likely face an uphill struggle to convince sceptical voters of the benefits of her deal for businesses.
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While Jekyll Island's quiet beach and secluded dunes are relaxing and lend inspiration to the hotel's interior design, the constant nickel-and-diming and heavy sales pitch for products detract from an otherwise tranquil spot.
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"The enemy wants to cut off our funding to destroy us," Mr. Jones said on his broadcast, concluding a segment about being banned by the social media companies with a sales pitch for another product.
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But there is an irony to a Silicon Valley executive stressing incumbency as a sales pitch; if anyone should be afraid of a disruptor, offering a service no one else does, shouldn't it be them?
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On board I dial into conference calls with the restaurant group, then hear a sales pitch from an old college friend who has started a "ghost kitchen" — a shared commissary that just fulfills delivery orders.
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Because your resume acts as a marketing document, a sales pitch in text, the more focused and succinct the document, the more convincing you'll be to recruiters, who typically spend around six seconds scanning a resume.
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For me, that's not something to be expressed in 140 character tweets or a strategically-filtered photo collage that would exist in the same timeline as someone over-enthusiastically hawking their latest pyramid scheme sales pitch.
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"As the Dow nosedives on his watch, the President's rambling, deceitful tax scam sales pitch reached an all-time low in Cincinnati," said Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in a statement.
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The Definitive Guide to Business with Marcus Lemonis When $5 million of business is on the line, your sales pitch can be all that separates you from walking home a millionaire and walking home empty-handed.
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He delivers his brilliantly simple sales pitch — "throw the bums out and let me make America great again" — in the same straightforward language voters use themselves, without backing himself into a corner with specific policy recommendations.
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That price is broadly in line with average levels at Europe's main freely-traded gas hubs in Britain and the Netherlands, showing how Gazprom has sweetened its sales pitch to encourage consumption by customers, analysts said.
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But lately he's changed his sales pitch to focus a little more on the fact that 2000 percent of profits go to charity — the company will surpass more than $250 million in total giving this year.
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The informal sales pitch is part of Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess's efforts to slim down and simplify the group which has 12 brands, trucks, buses, motorbikes, cars and electric bicycles as part of its business.
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In their book, Mr. Naifeh and Mr. Smith described the real estate agent's tour as a "perverse, reverse sales pitch," a laundry list of fatal flaws and dire warnings about its leaking roofs and fetid contents.
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If you were hopeful that you could check-in on Facebook at 36,000 feet or even polish your sales pitch last-minute after boarding your flight in India, you might have to wait a little longer.
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So — at this higher mid-tier price-point (€450/~$500) — why not flip the consumer smartphone sales pitch on its head to make it about shrinking rather than maximizing impact, via a dull but worthy standard?
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As with so many things about Trump, Americans were asked to ignore what they saw with their own eyes -- a substantially overweight man of 70 dining on fried chicken and burgers -- and accept the sales pitch.
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Police and Ring have previously described their partnership as a sort of digital neighborhood watch, one that builds on the company's existing surveillance and social network infrastructure and embodies its "Protection at every corner" sales pitch.
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State Department official David Holmes is scheduled to appear Friday for a closed-door deposition, a sign Taylor's evidence has breathed new life into Democrat's fact-finding investigation, even as the public sales pitch has begun.
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They were offered Trump-label champagne and given a sales-pitch about the newly renovated hotel — where some rooms costs about $20,000 a night — and is conveniently located just a few blocks from the White House.
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While the new rules mean we'll continue to see these rental bikes on the roads for now, the virtual dock is a far cry from the initial sales pitch of having a "smarter" and freer bike system.
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Instead, he looks to be choosing an emissary to the Republican Party, a VP who suggests that Trump's deviations are part of a sales pitch, not core to his ideology or nonnegotiable in his approach to governing.
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Think of your message as an opportunity to follow up with an employer and make a final sales pitch for yourself, reminding them once again about your talents and why you're best-suited to fill the role.
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"This prideful ignorance, the belief that he's got nothing to learn from the past, that facts are merely obstacles to a good sales pitch, compounds the steep learning curve he faced entering the White House," Avlon observed.
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The fantasy at the core of that sales pitch is not Cam Newton's mastery or Aaron Rodgers' calm or Odell Beckham Jr.'s virtuosity, and it's not even the ambient politics of J.J. Watt's stolid country strength.
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"Crazy Diamond" (based on the story "Sales Pitch") has Steve Buscemi as a scientist agreeing to help one of his company's androids (played by Borgen / The Duke of Burgundy star Sidse Babett Knudsen) outlast her expiration date.
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In what resembled a sales pitch to an available free agent, the New Orleans Pelicans met with Anthony Davis on Wednesday in the hope of convincing him to embrace in the direction the franchise is now headed.
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A successful sales pitch is much less about showmanship, high-pressure tactics, and psychological manipulation and more about perspective-taking and empathy — listening to what your customer actually needs so you can figure out how to help.
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"I came here alone, but met many fellow Hefei property buyers along the way," 40-year-old Hefei businessman Zhou, who only gave his surname, said as he listened to a sales pitch for a new development.
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Yet a key government sales pitch for passing the legislation was the claim of a 'world class' double-lock authorization and oversight regime to ensure the claimed safeguards on intelligence agencies powers to intercept and retain data.
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And through this sales pitch, and its accompanying suite of connect-it-all devices, to transform personal spaces into rich repositories of user intel that can continue to fuel its ad-targeting engines for decades to come.
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Harvey Weinstein turned a woman's sales pitch into a full-on sexual assault -- which was captured on video -- and followed it up by raping her in his hotel room ... according to an explosive new class action lawsuit.
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Being a virtual band was always part of the sales pitch of Gorillaz, the pairing of the Blur musician Damon Albarn and the illustrator Jamie Hewlett, which has been releasing hip-hop-influenced concept albums since 2001.
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It does what few films of recent memory do: It reminds us that the ultra-wealthy generally don't live up to the sales pitch that they, Hollywood and the Republican Party have collectively tried to sell us.
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Trump also stepped on his own sales pitch in August, when he followed up an infrastructure speech at Trump Tower by defending the "very fine people" who had marched in a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Heck, you can even watch the Super Bowl with YouTube TV.What's always been missing from that sales pitch—or at least confined to the small print—is the fact that YouTube TV doesn't really work with most TVs.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump looked out into a crowd of many unfamiliar faces in a basement room on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning, as he delivered a vigorous sales pitch to lawmakers on the Republican health care bill.
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Rekognition, Amazon's facial recognition tool and one of many AWS cloud services for developers, has been the subject of controversy for its use by law enforcement agencies and a reported sales pitch to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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India gathered momentum in the March quarter to extend its lead as the world's fastest growing large economy, helping Prime Minister Narendra Modi craft an impressive sales pitch for meetings with investors in the United States next week.
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Point: While this revelation isn't totally new (WSJ reported this in June), it shows that Facebook actively pursued whitelisting as part of its sales pitch, which undermines its narrative that it puts user privacy ahead of business deals.
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This might take the form of a quick video on a mobile phone (dubbed "micro-learning"), instead of a boring lecture in a company conference room, or an online app to get instant feedback on a sales pitch.
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They have also lied to administrative staff about their reasons for calling, characterizing their call as a matter of grave security importance, only to present a sales pitch once they'd worked their way up to the right executive.
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Glossed over in that sales pitch is the part where sous vide takes at least an hour to cook the steak, or up to 10 times longer than it would using conventional methods, like a stove or grill.
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White House lawyers and other officials studied the option of overriding the ban but did not develop a strong legal position or an effective political sales pitch in an election year, a source familiar with the discussions said.
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For many Americans – myself included -- it is almost a weekly, or even daily, occurrence that we open our mailbox or answer our phone, and a high-pressure sales pitch ensues urging us to put solar on our roof.
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Noah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal nonprofit group, said the sales pitch by Kushner Companies in China was "highly problematic" and could be interpreted as selling access to Mr. Kushner.
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The study comes at a time when one possible candidate is making his sales pitch to the middle of the political spectrum, counting on what he believes to be a legion of moderates to back his potential candidacy.
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His hard-line sales pitch to the Freedom Caucus lawmakers — he told the Republicans that the White House-based legislation was not up for debate — was panned inside the West Wing as a major misstep that cost Trump votes.
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Something else deeply sinister, destructive and dark was at work here, in which the electorate found itself enamored with the cheap rhetoric and rather outright racist used-car sales pitch of a candidate who flaunted his narcissism with flair.
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The term "snake oil" — now a catch-all for any scam good with a flashy sales pitch — originated in the days when con artists would roam from town to town by wagon, shilling useless health elixirs to unwitting marks.
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"But the empty sales pitch is all the more hollow if the lead sale salesman Legere himself never planned to stick around and deliver on what he tried to sell to lawmakers, FCC commissioners, and antitrust enforcers," he added.
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If you have friends that primarily play their games on a PC, you've probably heard them give you a sales pitch once or twice (or every waking moment) about why you should adopt a PC setup of your own.
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The deal would also allow nearly 2628 million "Dreamers" illegally brought to the country as children to seek citizenship Despite Trump's call for bipartisanship, his history of making inflammatory remarks about immigration colored how lawmakers received his sales pitch.
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With just 24-hours to make the final sales pitch to Granite State voters, candidates fanned out across the state looking to add to their list of supporters and encourage their faithful to turn out despite reports of snow.
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The same applied, largely, to its efforts to streamline distribution, although at least the sales pitch there -- a more a la carte-based approach in which you "Only pay for what you want" -- has a clear potential consumer benefit.
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If you find yourself in the middle of a sales pitch or presenting a project in front of a class and you can't remember a detail, take a breath and remind yourself that only you know what is "supposed" to happen.
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" Ryan focuses on tax cut in final midterm sales pitch - AP: "House Speaker Paul Ryan is crediting the GOP's tax plan with improving the U.S. economy, an argument that's central to the Republican pitch to voters ahead of the midterm election.
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Jackie Kucinich of the Daily Beast shared her reporting on a last big Obamacare sales pitch, and the irony of its advocates getting aggressive now after watching the health care law become a liability for Democrats in recent campaign cycles.
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After I got married and moved to suburban Tennessee in my mid-20s, I discovered that anywhere women gathered —yoga classes, PTA meetings, Bible studies, mom groups, Bunco leagues, book clubs — there was a party invite or sales pitch lurking.
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While you're more than likely to get a heavy sales pitch touting all the benefits when shopping, consumer advocates say these plans, which can cost hundreds of dollars depending on the product you're covering, generally are not worth the money.
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The Latch C could also be installed by building operators that lease standalone individual houses — with Schoenfelder pointing to the likes of Invitation Homes, which leases 50,000 homes across the U.S., as another type of potential customer for its sales pitch.
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But while The Great Hack's subjects hammer Cambridge Analytica for all sorts of deceptions, they appear to accept its sales pitch at face value — and so do the filmmakers, who present company marketing material and promotional speeches as unchallenged fact.
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Arrive's unique sales pitch to potential investment targets revolves heavily around its experience in brand building — the company is unique among VC firms in terms of its exposure to the task of managing and building up artists, as well as athletes.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will take her Brexit sales pitch to Scotland on Wednesday, where she will likely face an uphill struggle to convince sceptical voters of the benefits of her deal for businesses and the fishing industry.
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Then there was the time a huge man showed up with numerous plastic hospital bracelets on his wrist and a sales pitch that was interrupted by voices in his head, he told Mr. Quintero, who immediately started planning a getaway.
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For a company whose sales pitch to advertisers is that it offers precision, targeting and transparency superior to traditional media, including television, it is remarkable that it has struggled to track the movement of ad dollars and content on its properties.
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Udacity's security sales pitch is that it has already trained 10,000 artificial intelligence engineers (no word on how many the company has successfully placed in companies), and has thousands of students actively enrolled in its artificial intelligence and data analysis classes.
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The addition to the list "caused uncertainty overseas" but the firm has been shifting its focus towards its home market, where it invested in an aggressive offline expansion to lure consumers with a patriotic sales pitch, said Canalys analyst Mo Jia.
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The earlier movie is best remembered for its shocker of a sales pitch: a shot of the White House being blown up by a shaft of alien light, an image that was as giddily funny as it was horrific to contemplate.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India gathered momentum in the March quarter to extend its lead as the world's fastest growing large economy, helping Prime Minister Narendra Modi craft an impressive sales pitch for meetings with investors in the United States next week.
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But for now, my most important piece of advice is to my fellow citizens who will soon head to the polls: Pay no attention to Trump's latest sales pitch that because she might be impeached, we must instead vote for him.
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It is a sales pitch, written by a very well-connected operator (his sister is Betsy DeVos) who has privately tried to convince the Trump administration to send contractors to Afghanistan—a story that was broken by the Times's reporting desk.
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On WhatsApp, for instance, the shoe brand Clarks avoided an overt sales pitch, and instead created three virtual characters to promote its venerable Desert Boot, allowing users to connect to them on the app to receive messages, videos and music playlists.
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Yet this sales pitch for the "side hustle" takes what we once called, more drably, another job and gives it a gloss, with a tiny shot of Superfly, disguising unstable working hours and a lack of bargaining power as liberation.
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Dawson's documentary was supposed to be about Star, a controversial beauty vlogger who has become a staple in the scene as well as the community around him, but it turned into a six-hour-long sales pitch for their new palette.
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But consumer advocates and other financial experts said they were concerned that undesirable annuities — often costly and complex ones — could end up among savers' options, particularly at smaller employers that get less sophisticated advice or don't look beyond a sales pitch.
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Any email solicitation promising to scale your channel and asking you to enter your credit card information should be scrutinized, and for new YouTubers it's probably best to err on the side of not trusting the third-party sales pitch.
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He wanted the news media to know about their sales pitch to Mr. Trump: that he throw his administration's weight behind Amer-I-Can, a program co-founded by Mr. Brown to help young people caught up in gang violence.
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But when Bill Cobb, chief executive of H&R Block, contacted IBM last summer, saying he wanted to use Watson to help "reinvent the retail experience for taxpayers," he heard what he called a candid assessment, not a sales pitch.
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" To exploit such details about customers, he predicted, direct marketing would evolve to a point where absorbing a sales pitch and making a purchase would be almost instantaneous — or, as he put it, "where advertising and buying become a single action.
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That evidence was clearly compelling: In a 2004 ruling, Judge Stephens rejected Purdue's motion that he dismiss the case and sided with the state's assertion that the material could convince a jury that Purdue's sales pitch was full of dangerous lies.
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Meanwhile, Richard returns to the Pied PIper offices and is shocked to learn Jack's world-class sales team took seriously something Richard mentioned as an example of a bad product and created a sales pitch for it: a server in a box.
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Visitors to the gallery can listen to the audio on headphones or book an appointment in order to experience, in person, Buerhaus's hyperbolic sales pitch, one that is undergirded by pitches of another sort, piano notes that mimic the rhythms of her voice.
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The American consumer has come a long way since the days of Willie Loman and the door-to-door sales pitch, but despite all of the online and retail options, for the company's founder, Kendall Tucker, nothing beats the knock on the door.
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" Naudet's sales pitch is as follows: "Look here, I'll make you a proposal; I'll sell it you for five thousand francs, and I'll sign an agreement to take it back in a twelvemonth at six thousand, if you no longer care for it.
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Several people who worked directly with Cambridge Analytica told BuzzFeed News that, despite its sales pitch and public statements, the company never provided any evidence that its techniques were effective or that it had the ability to execute them on a large scale.
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They were moderately startled when he jumped onstage with a musical sales pitch for something called the "Small Star Corporation," a fictional company that can help ordinary people navigate everything from accidental drifts across dimensions to the process of efficiently recycling their corpse.
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Several decades ago, its official tourism slogan was "Jamaica: We're more than a beach, we're a country," a proud, provocative sales pitch that sought to attract vacationers by offering more than the usual fare of sun, sea and sand — and rightly so.
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The companies are also contributing volunteer employee hours for events like a workshop last July where eight female Visa staff members trained a group of girl scouts in cookie program website design, how to conduct a successful customer sales pitch and target marketing.
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"Right now, it's the absence of any federal policy" — a more organic, government-led efforts to bring jobs and investment to areas outside Silicon Valley — "that has every member of Congress out for themselves making a sales pitch," he said in an interview.
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Jared Kushner's status as a top aide to President Donald Trump was used to lure Chinese investors to his family's New Jersey development, even after his family's company apologized for mentioning his name during a sales pitch in May, CNN has found.
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Apple has always positioned itself as a tech company that cares about user privacy, and that sales pitch has become increasingly convincing as data breaches get worse and data-hungry companies like Google gobble up more and more of our personal information.
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So really the concept apps were the most blatant part of DeepMind's sales pitch today — using the familiarity and popularity of smartphone apps to try to win over the UK public to an alternative vision for the future of NHS healthcare delivery.
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Trump and his team have ramped up their sales pitch for the plan, which would roll back core elements of the Affordable Care Act and replace them with a more conservative system centered on tax credits to help people buy health insurance.
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"The architect is a key part of the Trump sales pitch when he goes into these countries, and he's convincing the money guys to give him a branding and development deal," said Jan deRoos, a Cornell University professor of real estate finance.
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We are all a little on edge right now, and we'd just like to get through the last few days without having to hear your sales pitch for every fringe candidate in the league that even you don't think should actually win.
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"We have allowed to rise a tech industry whose products are booked as a purchase when it is advantageous to the sales pitch to do so, and then silently, instantly converted to a licensing deal when commercial logic demands it," he argued.
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Skip, formerly known as Waybots, tells Axios that its sales pitch is fourfold: Safety for riders and everyone else: It will back, financially and otherwise, local organizations such as the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition focused on initiatives like adding more bike lanes.
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Or rather why they fail to come up with effective structures to support maintaining public ownership of public assets; to distribute benefits equally, rather than disproportionately rewarding the single, best-resourced, fastest-moving commercial entity that happens to have the slickest sales pitch.
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When he finally arrived at noon, Mr. Trump gave the well-heeled audience members a sales pitch on the virtues of the building, even though they had already collectively pledged millions of dollars on the units, which are to open by June 2019.
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Amitai Bin-Nun said that Carnival Cruise Line recently called him with a sales pitch, where the marketer tried to suggest that Carnival — whose Princess Cruises line has had at least two serious coronavirus outbreaks — hasn't had any problems with the coronavirus.
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And the technology that made podcasts possible — the smartphone — has also gifted its producers a golden sales pitch: Podcasts are being pushed as a guilt-free alternative to screen time, a more engaging option than zoned-out YouTube bingeing or hypnotizing mobile games.
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The agency said that dealers who carry out repairs on used vehicles can use that as a sales pitch, giving them a competitive advantage over dealers who do not — and whose ads must carry a note that the vehicle may have a recall.
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His sales pitch largely centered around low Latinx unemployment rates and stoking fears about immigration — but these were also key components of his campaign message heading into last year's midterms elections, and Republicans ended up losing all five statewide races in New Mexico.
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DICK ARONSON, WESTFIELD, N.J. To the Editor: Re "New Sales Pitch by Democrats, for Audience of Trump Voters" (front page, July 25): Given President Trump's low approval ratings and chaotic presidency, Democrats have an excellent chance to gain control of Congress in 2018.
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The new Medicaid agreement in Oklahoma may help Alkermes in its sales pitch to doctors, including for Aristada Initio - approved last month as the first antipsychotic injection that does not require patients to begin treatment by taking oral pills for several weeks.
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During a speech to a group of farmers in New Orleans on Monday, Trump — who in recent days has escalated his efforts to demonize undocumented immigrants as part of his sales pitch for a border wall — mocked immigrants who follow the rules.
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Yet what's odd about this framing is that most presidents' standard sales pitch to undecided members of Congress facing a tough vote is that the strategy the president favors will, in some way, prove to be a political winner in the long term.
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Overall the sales pitch to customers is a system that can passively track how an office space is being used, providing visibility into dynamic multi-occupant, even multi-tenant environments, and making suggestions on how to reallocate resources to make best use of a space.
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Proponents tend to back their sales pitch of the eggs by claiming that they've been used for more than 2,000 years, when it was first adapted as an "ancient Taoist tradition" by members of the Chinese royal empire as well as the emperor's concubines.
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These reports — which are common among more established lifestyle bloggers as well — appear to exist as a nod toward transparency, but in this case they also act as a kind of sales pitch to convince readers that a blogger's advice is worth paying for.
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On Monday, Musk made his most extended sales pitch for autonomous vehicles yet at an investor day, saying Teslas will be able to serve as robo-taxis for their owners by next year and owning any other car would be like owning a horse.
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" Speaking to Noisey on the phone while driving around "out in the sticks, like in the middle of nowhere," Roc Marci says, "I don't have any crazy sales pitch for this album, it's just a great piece of music and I stand by it.
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Martinez not only won the competition and scored the rights to design The Simple Greek's franchise stores, Lemonis also hired her to be in charge of interior design for all of his businesses — proof that a savvy sales pitch can go a long way.
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The growth opportunity its investors are spotting is both to expand to more markets, initially across Europe, but also to supplement over-stretched state healthcare services — with Zava gearing up to make a sales pitch to state healthcare services in the UK, France and Germany.
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It was an unremarkable sales pitch—affirmed by the fact that the potential client decided not to buy, according to a source who attended the meeting—except for the timing, which was almost six months after what some consider Hacking Team's near-death experience.
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Army leadership gathered Tuesday to announce that they surpassed their recruiting goal for 4833, signing up more than 68,000 active duty soldiers before the end of the fiscal year, but the long wars in the Middle East weren't exactly part of the sales pitch.
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More than halfway into Mr. Trump's term, he and Mr. Pence have developed what aides describe as a rhythm, in which the president lays out the broad contours of policy and then hands off to the vice president to make the granular sales pitch.
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But in the middle of the partisan rancor, lawmakers are preparing to send one major election-year legislative accomplishment to President Barack Obama: legislation combating the nation's opioid epidemic that is a key part of vulnerable Senate Republicans' sales pitch to voters this fall.
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The Federal Trade Commission, which regulates multilevel marketing programs, offers three telltale signs of an illegal pyramid scheme: While there are many legitimate ways to make a living while working from your home, that is also a common sales pitch for illegal pyramid schemes.
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PCMag also said that OnePlus sales at T-Mobile stores only account for 1.3 percent of all phones, so it seems T-Mobile is moving to focus its efforts on selling just one device, and it will likely have a better sales pitch for the cheaper 7T.
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Canalys analyst Mo Jia said Huawei's addition to the U.S. Entity List in May "caused uncertainty overseas" but it has been shifting its focus back towards its home market, where it invested in aggressive offline expansion to lure consumers from domestic rivals with a patriotic sales pitch.
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Washington (CNN)While President Donald Trump brought his sales pitch for wall to the Texas-Mexico border Thursday, Senate compromise talks to end the government shutdown stalled and congressional Democrats and Republicans spent the day casting votes aimed more at political messaging than resolving their disputes.
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Just two years after launching, Hims has reached $100 million in annual subscription revenue and is growing so fast that it expects to reach $183 million in recurring revenue by the end of 2020, according to a recent sales pitch to investors that was viewed by CNBC.
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Amon took the opportunity to give a muscular sales pitch for 5G, claiming the next-gen cellular tech would come faster than the transition from 3G to 4G/LTE and bring transformative benefits for consumers — touting the likes of premium gaming on mobile to replace game consoles.
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And again, I think it's a really important conversation to have, and this is, sort of, a longer conversation, but I also think, like, Cambridge Analytica, their sales pitch sounded a lot scarier than ... When you actually look at the data, it's not nearly as effective.
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His "What the hell do you have to lose?" sales pitch, in which he portrayed black communities as blighted by unemployment, poverty and crime, was poorly received by many African-American leaders, in part because they were often delivered before mostly white audiences at his rallies.
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She devotes pages of filler to the glorious architecture of Middle Europe — sounding uncomfortably close to the sales pitch for a Viking River Cruise — and to the menu at the Jungs' wedding, and to the wares of the Bahnhofstrasse, and to the costume of the day.
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These events would drown out the cheerleading and the sales pitch and make the President long for the serenity of the Swiss Alps event where he could set aside his troubles and the elite was programmed to like him, if only because he paid them to.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "New Sales Pitch by Democrats, for Audience of Trump Voters" (front page, July 25): In announcing their "Better Deal" political agenda, leading Democrats offered strategies they say will result in better jobs, higher wages and more skills training for the American worker.
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In the most Trumpian way, it's a combination of a sleazy sales pitch and the fundamental lies at the heart of American capitalism, telling people they must protect the jewels the market has given them when really all they have is Arby's and an emptying strip mall.
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Some were clearly an attempt to get me to buy something, but I didn't mind: At the Pilimathalawa Tea Factory, for example, a quick and interesting tour of the grounds was followed by an elaborate tasting and sales pitch to try to get me to buy tea.
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Moore, as Madison, uses gold guns, wears a Scorpio necklace, and has all the best lines in the film, reminding the viewer who is truly listening that "Angels forever" is just a sales pitch and that if you reject patriarchal authority, you are considered an enemy.
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Larry Sand, a retired Los Angeles and New York City teacher who heads the California Teachers Empowerment Network, said he believes the Los Angeles union sees its showdown with the district as a public "sales pitch" for organized labor now that teachers have a choice about joining.
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But given Trump's track record in the 11 debates he participated in, Wallace scored a major victory in getting Trump first to talk about policy with any kind of depth and then to admit that his policy wasn't as comprehensive as his sales pitch made it seem.
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IBM uses the blog post as a kind of sales pitch as to why it's a good choice, while at the same time pointing out the flaws in the single vendor approach and complaining that it's geared toward a single unnamed vendor that we all know is Amazon.
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"Any city planner or engineer looking for information on e-scooters has probably only seen negative news stories about companies dumping scooters in a city and creating chaos, or a sales pitch from one of the companies," Aaron Madrid, alternative transportation coordinator at Purdue, said in the release.
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I'm a hard worker (I had only two days to do the project), I'm a good listener (I got notes from coworkers and incorporated them into the project), and, most importantly, I get results (the sales pitch was a success and we made even more money than usual #humblebrag).
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Journalists who attended a sales pitch in Beijing on Saturday — before they were ejected by the organizers — said that Meyer mentioned her brother during the presentation, which included a photo of President Trump identifying him as a key-decision maker on the fate of the EB-5 program.
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During the election, Facebook broke down the U.S. into 14 political segments, spanning from left-leaning youth to pro-gun rights Tea Partiers, and gave the information to political advertisers to help them better target their ads, according to a sales pitch obtained by Alex Kantrowitz of BuzzFeed News.
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CapitalG's Howard was adamant that the program wouldn't feel like a sales pitch in any way, and Kemp, too, puts it squarely: "Obviously it's a win for us if users adopt TensorFlow, if users move over to Cloud ML, but it's never the focus of the content," she says.
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Because what we're talking about is really a nascent class of software and there's no sense being pedantic when the ideas fall under the umbrella most people would understand as AI. But when companies use that fundamental vagueness as a deceptive sales pitch, I feel I have to object.
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Was the decision to create such a massive game world influenced by the simple desire to have that "biggest Zelda ever" sales pitch; or did the map's size come about more because of all the things—the areas, quests and items, the content—you needed to put in it?
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Inquire Sandy Alderson, Citi Field, Flushing, N.Y. Mets Manager Terry Collins did not present that exact sales pitch to the rest of baseball regarding Asdrubal Cabrera, his reluctant second baseman, before his team's 2330-313 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday, but he might as well have.
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When the Kindle entered the marketplace in 2007, Amazon had a simple sales pitch: Anyone with a Kindle could buy all the ebooks they wanted through the online marketplace, and many of those ebooks — in fact, all New York Times best-sellers — would cost no more than $20123.
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That way, any customer looking to replace a fuse or searching for someone to help them figure out if they can install a light dimmer could get swept up into a sales pitch about how they could save hundreds per month over 30 years if they install Tesla solar panels.
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Unions are terrified by this and are pursuing a variety of legislation in states including Washington (SB6229 and SB6079), California and New York that would make it mandatory for workers to hear a membership sales pitch from unions but nearly impossible for groups with different perspectives to present differing viewpoints.
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For its part, Rekognition has been the subject of controversy for its use by law enforcement agencies and a reported sales pitch to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the U.S. Still, AWS has said the technology is used by organizations that work with law enforcement to advocate for victims of crime.
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While Blumenthal's sales pitch for U.S.-manufactured Blackhawks might fall in line with the "America First" message President Trump conveyed in his inaugural address, plans to transition the AAF from one of its most relied upon aircraft – the Mi-2628 – amid Afghanistan's heaviest fighting in years, is a grave mistake.
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It was a little strange to see him campaigning Wednesday in that critical swing state of … Washington, D.C. "He's coming to open a hotel that's under budget and ahead of schedule," campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, insisting it was all a part of the presidential sales pitch.
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The words "Good Buy" can be looked at in this way—a play on words whose double meaning suggests something "positive" (I say this in quotes because it can either be read as positive reinforcement for an action or a sales pitch), but also references an exit when said out loud.
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Based on what was discussed during these sessions, here are some major trends to watch out for in the future of space exploration—without the sales pitch: ASTEROID MINING One of the biggest tricks in colonizing space is figuring out how to get the resources necessary for this venture into orbit.
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Impeachment investigators announced during the hearing that Holmes, an official at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, is scheduled to testify behind closed doors on Friday, an indication that Democrats' efforts to unearth new information is active even as they have begun making their public sales pitch to the American people.
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Lacking a pointed national sales pitch in the first half of this year, Democratic candidates were shut out in a series of special congressional elections in conservative-leaning districts — in Georgia, Montana, South Carolina and Kansas — with each defeat fueling new recriminations and deepening existing disagreements about the party's future.
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The argument here is that by basing the company and tools on open source software, they'll be able to lean on that community to rapidly adapt to a changing environment when it comes to security, and that will allow them to be more agile and have a better sales pitch to larger companies.
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Now NSO has been telling prospective clients that Pegasus has been developed to target cloud servers, according to people familiar with the sales pitch and documents shared with the FT. NSO reportedly said in its pitch that by hacking into these servers it could access someone's location-data history, archived messages, and photos.
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"Almost everybody I've given a bag to is now using it in their restaurant," she boasted, before slipping into a bit of her sales pitch, explaining that wild rice is actually an aquatic grain that's gluten-free and rich in vitamins and minerals, with twice the protein and fiber of brown rice.
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His advisers are still convinced of the basic potency of a sales pitch about economic growth and a shake-up in Washington, and they aspire to compete in as many as 21 states, despite Mr. Trump's perilous standing in the four states — Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina — likely to decide the election.
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But the first episode does an efficient job of establishing three central settings: in addition to the Coterie, there's Callie's clerkship, where her Ivy League peers vie for the attention of the judge (crisply played by Roger Bart), and Mariana's dot-com gig, whose diverse sales pitch turns out to be a sham.
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From a political point of view, if he's dropping bombshells like this just two days in to his sales pitch, he definitely wants to not only redirect the US military away from counterinsurgency and towards fighting a high-tech foe, but he wants everyone in the US and overseas to know about it.
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Arthur J. Robinson — or Mr. Okra, as pretty much everyone called him — who rolled each day through the streets of New Orleans in a loudly painted pickup-truck-cum-fruit-stand singing his sales pitch like the roving food vendors once common in the city, died on Thursday at his home there.
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Ms. Tisch was required to sell at least 500 handbags in her hour of airtime or lose her slot, and so she began experimenting with the linings, making scarves and pencil cases out of the material as part of the network's "if you buy now, get this free" style of sales pitch.
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Later, he visited pain clinics where, he said, doctors requested only the briefest justification for writing prescriptions, at a time when many physicians accepted a sales pitch from drug companies, such as Purdue Pharma, the maker of several potent painkillers, that their pills were a safe and effective way to treat pain.
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The threat of the Los Angeles Clippers signing Leonard away in free agency is all too real for every basketball-loving Canadian, but the Raptors may still assemble the best possible sales pitch: Win the post-LeBron James Eastern Conference to get to the N.B.A. finals and give Leonard ample reason to stay. 2.
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They're not all amazing, but it really is the one time of year where commercials get elevated into something more interesting, where they're not intent on getting to the brand slogan and sales pitch as quickly as possible and are willing to try showing you a sweet or funny or otherwise engaging story for a change.
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"Not every post is a sales pitch, but Height Maximizer is an affiliate seller of supplements and other height-related products like "Grow Taller 4 Idiots," a book-and-DVD set promising to teach purchasers "One Simple Trick" that "FORCES You to Grow AT LEAST 53 Inches Taller In 8 Weeks, Even if You're PAST PUBERTY!
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To many, that's the thing that bothers them most about Apple: the reality distortion field that bends consumer attention to the point where a product becomes a must-have before anyone even looks beneath the surface at all — the sales pitch that amounts to "trust us" yet still convinces millions to hand over their credit card numbers with enthusiasm.
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In less than three years, Xbox One has already gone through multiple identity crises: from an entertainment system, back to gaming, and now toward a PC. Microsoft's gaming efforts appear to be heading in the right direction, but if Project Scorpio fails to ignite Xbox One sales, who knows what the sales pitch will be two years from now.
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Commander Lewin, who is in charge of Chicago's "heat list" model of predictive policing and who was on the receiving end of Katie Laidlaw's sales pitch for Palantir, said in an interview that he was aware of Palantir's work with other law enforcement agencies but never approved either a test run or purchase of Palantir software.
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And while there's no doubt 5G will change things radically in future, including for consumers — enabling many more devices to be connected and feeding back data, with the potential to deliver on the (much hyped but also still pretty nascent) 'smart home' concept — the early 5G sales pitch for consumers essentially boils down to more of the same.
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Instead, Trump offered the same sales pitch that he's been making for the wall for months — one based on false premises about immigrant crime (they actually commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans) and drugs (smuggled drugs mostly come through the border via ports of entry, and a wall would do nothing to prevent that).
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Atlanta will stage the NFL title game on Sunday for a third time and the first since 4.53 when the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams clash at the futuristic Mercedes-Benz Stadium, using the opportunity as a sales pitch to try to get on a Super Bowl rotation of hosting once every 8-to-10 years.
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Dating through the classifieds (the film is ostensibly set in 1982), she's looking for a hot dress, and she finds one, a red number, at D & S. She buys it despite the ultra-baroque sales pitch of a clerk, who's dressed, like all her colleagues, as if she stepped out of a Velásquez rendition of a funeral.
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Read more: A freelancer who has pulled in a 6-figure income every year since 2010 shares the exact process he used to quit his job and become successfully self-employedAnd that list is no small potatoes, having swelled to over 110,000 to date — which is why Sula still uses the refer-a-friend tactic as part of her sales pitch.
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The Clio ad amassed around 10 million views between YouTube and Twitter and won lavish praise from outlets like Fast Company and Business Insider, gathering attention as a specimen of what has come to be referred to as "rainbow capitalism": a sales pitch that's harnessed to — and that effectively freeloads off — the powerful emotions inspired by issues of queer identity.
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The target is probably the latter, and probably Amazon, with the sales pitch not Bodega's market positioning or logistics system (ha!), but the actual hardware of its vending devices — a low-footprint storefront that bridges the gap between Amazon's pickup lockers (non-instantaneous, but zero human interface) and its instant pickup stores (instantaneous, but you have to briefly interact with someone).
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But while much of the company hype has focused on the car due in July, Tesla on Wednesday made a sales pitch for its overshadowed Model S. Tesla is anxious that the $1.333,21.33 Model 281 - which will likely not be delivered in volume until 245.6 - avoids cannibalizing the higher-margin Model S, which lists at about double the starting price.
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This prideful ignorance, the belief that he's got nothing to learn from the past, that facts are merely obstacles to a good sales pitch, compounds the steep learning curve he faced entering the White House as the first president to ever take the oath of office without previously holding elected or appointed office, not even Cabinet offices or the military.
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Apple declined to comment for this story, but the sales pitch in the company's 2019 Environmental Responsibility Report makes it pretty clear the company would much rather you pay Apple to repair your phone for a variety of reasons: To make sure that repairs are performed safely, securely, and to the highest quality, we continuously train and certify service channel personnel, with over 265,000 active trained personnel.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's campaign is out with two new ads as the GOP presidential nominee makes his closing sales pitch to voters one week before Election Day.
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According to the Times, "people familiar with its sales pitch" as well as leaked sales documents show that NSO Group's parent company Q-Cyber is advertising Pegasus as having the capability to copy authentication keys to services including Google Drive, Facebook Messenger, and iCloud from an infected phone to a web server that is then capable of independently downloading the target's entire online history.
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The sales pitch to building owners is an upgraded digital entry system that Latch claims is cheaper to run/maintain versus legacy electronic entry systems, and which also allows them to offer their tenants additional services, such as the ability to give out access codes to delivery companies or use key cards to gain keyless and mobile-less entry to an in-building gym.
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On Monday, for instance, prosecutors met with Melissa Thompson, an entrepreneur who asserted in a lawsuit filed on Friday that Mr. Weinstein overpowered her and raped her during what was supposed to be a sales pitch at the TriBeCa Grand Hotel in September 2011, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an open investigation.
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Not only has the agency been accused of begging the alcohol industry for money—using a sales pitch that implied their results would likely be favorable to the industry, according to a March report from the New York Times—but, according to a new article from STAT, some scientists are now claiming that the NIH has run interference on and shut down research into the relationship between advertising and underage alcohol consumption.
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Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America, said smugglers are telling people in Central America that the time to leave is now, before the Trump administration tries again to make it more difficult to get into the US. "If we were still with Obama and nobody was threatening that the migrant apocalypse was about to come ... smugglers couldn't use that as a sales pitch," Isacson told BuzzFeed News.
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President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE on Friday made a 40-minute sales pitch to a gathering of Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) leaders about why they should support his wife, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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It's a tough sales pitch even for a master persuader—if 22 Republicans are against the bill it will go down, and as of Wednesday afternoon it looked like it was going down big league thanks to conservative opposition: That tweet is from a spokesperson for the Freedom Caucus, a group of hardline right-wingers who have achieved an outsized amount of power because the Republican leadership needs their votes to pass anything.
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The Saban formula centers on "the process," a philosophy that emphasizes correct play over wins and losses (while conveniently leading to oodles of wins); an insatiable quest to pluck the very best prospects from across the country, with Crimson Tide starters hailing from Florida and Texas, New Jersey and Maryland, Iowa and California; and a sales pitch in which a former N.F.L. head coach pledges to prepare recruits for the next level.
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Tesla reported first-quarter revenue that more than doubled, and while saying the upcoming Model 3 was on schedule for July, it downplayed the mass-market vehicle to give a sales pitch for its more expensive Model S. Signs that centrist Emmanuel Macron was heading for victory in France's presidential election and reassuring results from HSBC pushed European shares to a near two-year high, despite some wary signals from China and commodity markets.
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But the mainstay of the sales pitch is convenience with Amazon touting time saved by subscribing to "essentials" — and time saved from compiling boring shopping lists once again means more time to consume the stuff being bought on Amazon… In a statement about retiring physical Dash buttons from global sale on February 28, Amazon also confirmed it will continue to support existing Dash owners — presumably until their buttons wear down to the bare circuit board from repeat use.
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"The Story of a Generation in Seven Scams" connects Fyre Fest, the Trump presidency, and the financial crash with other, subtler scams that have shaped Tolentino's generation: Facebook, which pretends to offer us a product when, as we all now know, the product is us; corporate feminism—or, in Tolentino's perfect formulation, the "spurious, embarrassing, and limitlessly seductive sales pitch that feminism means, first and foremost, the public demonstration of getting yours"; and soaring college tuition fees.
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Trump thinks of himself as a great man — that is the premise of his entire sales pitch, that America has faltered and can only be made great again by the Midas touch of his tiny hands — but if current trends continue and he suffers a staggering loss on Election Day, his ego will be forever injured as he is assigned to history not as a great man but as a great disaster, a cautionary tale of what comes of a party that picks a con man as its frontman.
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Since buying out its hardware partner in the Blackphone joint venture Silent Circle has shifted from more of a prosumer focus with the original Blackphone smartphone sales pitch to pushing what it dubs an enterprise privacy platform business — which brings together a suite of software services, such as its Silent Phone secure calling, messaging and file sharing software with encrypted calling plans that expand secure calling to non-subscribers, and user management services via a web-based admin console that targets businesses needing to manage mixed estates of iOS and Android handsets in a BYOD world.
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