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«I think on minimum wage, it's kind of a hard sell in the Senate.

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Whether via phishing (tricking someone into providing their financial account information — often via an attachment in an email or a fake website that purports to sell or give away tickets), an ATM skimmer (which reads and records the card's information, including password) or point - of - sale malware (like that used in the 2013 Target breach), it's not hard for cybercriminals to trick the unsuspecting.

Nakanishi, an engineer who joined Hitachi in 1970 and worked his way up the ladder, proceeded to sell the company's hard disk drive business and consumer - related operations, opting to concentrate on sales of big - ticket power plants, rail lines and water treatment facilities.

Third, younger employees are a hard sell in a lot of ways.

Considering that not one Democrat voted in favor of rolling back the Obama - era privacy rules, though, that could be a hard sell.

This new breed of retail space replaces the hard - sell shopping environment — stacks of products, rows of cash registers, sales signs — with a softer approach that turns the store into a walk - in advertisement.

The hardest part of selling your product or service is getting in front of the people who will actually make the decision to buy it.

The hard - to - find retro console has sold 2 million units so far, according to the company, with the bulk of the holiday season still in front of it.

Third, crude prices will keep pressure on stocks as SWF selling hits hard in the first or second quarter of 2016.

But it will be hard to disappoint Dollarama loyalists like this Facebook user, a connoisseur of who earned her credentials by visiting «EVERY» dollar store in Saskatoon: «The other Dollar stores sell crap... DollarRama wins hands down, all the way!!!»

For all the talk of EMC Federation companies being able to sell both with each other and against each other, it's hard to see how this will work in the field given that Team EMC faces prodigious competition from Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (MSFT) for these accounts.

Electronics were one of the earliest consumer product categories to sell strongly online, resulting in price transparency that made it hard for physical retailers to compete.

Only with bonds it's even harder to create a diversified portfolio using individual bonds on your own unless you (a) have a large amount of capital (typically bonds are sold in lots of $ 10,000 or $ 100,000) and (b) know how to trade bonds on the open market (transaction costs can be larger for bonds than stocks because of the spreads and lack of liquidity).

«You can work long, hard or smart, but at Amazon.com you can't choose two out of three,» Mr. Bezos wrote in his 1997 letter to shareholders, when the company sold only books, and which still serves as a manifesto.

Because of this, though, it can be hard to sell shares that you have because there aren't as many traders interested in the stock as there are with other, more valuable stocks.

Running a trade surplus means that a country sells more to foreigners than it buys from them, and there seems to be an implicit belief that exports are what a hard working country produces, and imports are the equivalent of its consumption, so that a trade surplus means that the country earns more than it spends, and the larger the surplus, the more likely the ants in that country are especially productive, thrifty, morally upright, and perhaps fond of sensible clothing.

• The $ 702 million worth of bonds that WeWork sold last week have dropped in price to as low as 95.25 cents on the dollar, which may make future borrowing harder.

However, as long as the bullion is with the Hard Assets Alliance, all you need to do is log in and sell it just like you would any shares of stock.

I used to sell a lot of my paintings over 10 years ago with less skills in my craft / web design / social media etc and now I have way more, nothing is happening I used to sell a lot online worlwide (ebay mostly when it wasn't so crowded) so it's hard to tell who my ideal client was and when face to face, there wasn't a specific type.

Established in late 2014, this business sells RAM - based hard drive software for gamers, which allows users to significantly improve the efficiency and processing speed of their hard drive with a few simple steps.

Judging when to reinvest in an under - valued market is at least as hard as selling out of an over-valued market.

The history of stock futures, in general, dates back to the 1840's, when regional farmers met in Chicago to sell wheat to dealers for cold, hard cash — a practice that was dubbed as «spot» pricing.

«I think stocks will go up another 15 to 20 %, but ultimately, when the recession arrives — and it will arrive — there's going to be a very hard sell - off in equities,» said Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Securities in an interview with CNBC's Brian Sullivan on Tuesday.

«The hard sell meant that, even in the depths of recession, Ouvah found tenants.

Today, we saw the market in its third day of selling, falling hard off of the highs and increasing fear among investors and speculators.

If you are selling catering services in Palo Alto, you'd better target the long tail keyword, since visitors coming from it are very likely to place an order, while it is hard to predict intent of visitors searching Google with a single word «catering».

The first step to doing so is to take a hard look in your boardroom mirror and ask perhaps one of the most profound question you can ask: are we still selling like it's 1999?

The cost of NEM's XEM token has been particularly hard - hit today, entrance in the arise of a thespian $ 500 million penetrate from Japanese cryptocurrency sell Coincheck.

They meant his creativity in sourcing pre-crisis loans and then selling them based on unconventional appraisal methodologies; the loans went bad, the investors are suing Credit Suisse, and I don't really know or care that much about the substance but it is always harder to argue about the good faith of your loans when you have e-mails from your own bankers calling them naughty words.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

Not so welcome is the fact that antiheroism, often in the form of parody or self - parody, exists alongside heroism: moreover, most presentations of moral heroism are handicapped by an overtly didactic, hard - sell approach.

Instead of receiving self - improvement nudges or engaging in conversation with strangers, I watched the founders fret (a lot) over technical glitches with the web streaming, talk about how hard they had worked to pull the service off, and try to sell me Sunday Assembly swag.

In fact, they were so serious about their radical new way of life that they sold their possessions — their actual investment properties and townhouses to redistribute cold hard cash to the poor.

Two Duke University economists, Charles Clotfelter and Philip Cook, authors of Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America, offer conclusive evidence that lotteries are not an easy way to make everyone a winner but rather a heavy tax which hits hardest those who can ill afford to pay.

Employees at Whitey's Ice Cream — founded in the depths of the Great Depression in 1933 by white - haired Chester «Whitey» Lindgren — work hard to do more than just manufacture and sell ice cream.

I believe passionately that if you do what you do with passion and dedication to the best of your ability and believe anything is possible you don't have to do a hard sell, I have believed in gentleness and led my work with the joy of food and my love for cooking and everything else has fallen into place.

The story of Kid Rock reads like an «Against All Odds» American success story of hard work, perseverance, and a commitment to excellence throughout his multi-million selling recording career — and he has done so in his signature «Bad Ass» fashion complete with undeniable style and swagger.

The winter months are hard on my banana addiction — I can't get them to ripen fast enough and the stores sell green ones I should probably just buy way more than I need so that they can ripen at home, but I haven't figured out how many that'll take, or what kind of intervals I should buy them in.

i made the loaf, was perfectly cooked after 1 hour, will make again, but may try the biscotti biscuit they sell in coffee shops (really hard) as i fancy getting more of a crunch!

Through the brothers» hard work, eventually the company transformed into Finest Food Distributing Co., selling specialty foods off the backs of trucks to small stores in New York City.

This is against the trend, because of the gloom surrounding the fall in the British pound after Brexit, which makes it harder for wine exporters selling into the competitive UK retail market.

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Schuman Cheese, with the help from marketing agency Emergent, is continuing to roll out its «True Cheese» program to tackle the issue of Italian hard cheese adulteration, which is estimated to account for roughly $ 375m of cheese sold in the US and 20 %...

Here in New York, good bread is a little harder to come by but I found a couple of places that sell some.

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The occasional oddly - shaped package is fine, but when you've got a baggy of pepper flakes and a hexagonal container of Mexican hot chocolate mix, and however you'd describe that jug they sell cornstarch in, it can be hard to create much symmetry in a cabinet.

OBIT Sirs: Now that the American League has so thoroughly humiliated the National League champs in the abbreviated 1966 World Series, let it spell an end to the hard - sell promotion of National League play at the expense of the AL..

poor signings and allowing unnecessary sellings of players not based on team needs When Cr7 is not scoring and marcelo and casemiro become strikers over their main roles in the team... Players play what coaches tell them especially positioning and movements... Hard days are ahead with PSG looming..

Moving Fulmer might make sense from the perspective of rebuilding IF they got about 3 top 100 prospects in a package, but it would still be a hard sell to the fan base.

I want Moses (most of us probably do), we're in pretty good position to land him of new factors don't push him elsewhere (Duke and KY) don't act like it's far fetched, word is we had a silent verbal from KJ before KY swooped in last minute with the hard sell.