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high-pressure salesmanship

NOUN
hard sell
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This time the Treasury will avoid high-pressure salesmanship, lure savings by a simple but fast-moving patriotic appeal.

From Time Magazine Archive

To recruit new students, some colleges have resorted to colorful brochures, radio commercials and high-pressure salesmanship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Intense and facile, Brady brought some of the high-pressure salesmanship of Seventh Avenue to the magazine's more leisurely East Side establishment and. in the words of one Bazaar staffer, "gave everyone an instant identity crisis."

From Time Magazine Archive

Browsing the Internet is just one of the new ways of kicking the tires that are giving consumers more bargaining power in a business famous for high-pressure salesmanship.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a front-page series, Chicago's American was blasting Tanny gyms for high-pressure salesmanship and false health claims.

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