A born loser, he worked long hours for little money as a salesman in a shoe shop. |
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In order for to find out if a suit jacket was sewn or glued, simply ask your tailor or the salesman you're consulting. |
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In the showroom John McCormack is the Principal salesman with three expert salespeople working under him. |
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Thus, you can, for example, set up a ring topology which can be used to optimize the classical travelling salesman problem. |
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Furthermore the travelling salesman problem can be solved in linear time on a weighted 3-connected Halin graph. |
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Unless the salesman can successfully answer that question satisfactorily, even the price of the product will not convince the prospect to buy. |
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Does this sound like a play on the traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter? |
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In 1936 Henry F. Phillips, also once a traveling salesman, patented the cruciform head known to us all. |
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Down the road a ways, the salesman sets up shop to peddle his wares to some local townsfolk. |
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With his toothy salesman smile and slicked back hair, I disliked him immediately. |
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He's a natural salesman, whose secret weapon is the sheer confidence and optimism that he exudes rather than backslapping bonhomie. |
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He was aided and abetted by a one-time car salesman whose verbal skills and shady book-keeping saw him become a kingmaker and bagman. |
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The longest jobs he's had were for a company making kitchens and as a salesman of timeshares. |
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The American salesman, everyone concedes, is the American salesman's easiest mark. |
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Yet there was one salesman who was filling orders as fast as greased lightning. |
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They probably don't even know a second-hand car salesman, as the latest 4x4 would be brand new as would be the cell phone. |
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Eventually he led me to a semi-literate jewellery salesman with wide-set eyes and a penchant for gold chains. |
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He was a salesman, out on the roads, what they used to call a commercial traveller. |
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A furniture salesman from Delaware, he has joined his older and more photogenic brother for the European leg of this promotional tour. |
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He's still the administration's best salesman when it comes to dealing with the economic recovery. |
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All I need is a cheap tweed coat with leather patches at my elbows and I could be dodgy salesman of the year. |
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The first play is the monologue of a travelling salesman, talking to a girl in his hotel room. |
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I was actually employed by my father as a radio and TV salesman and hire purchase clerk. |
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But a shoe salesman recently told me that high-tops don't actually prevent ankle sprains and the benefit is only psychological. |
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The last time I ordered video dubs, I made a point of telling the salesman that the tapes needed to be hi-fi stereo and he was insulted. |
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After national service he worked as a swimming pool salesman, and jobs as a TV stuntman, circus performer and part-time inventor followed. |
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If you haven't seen it, it's the movie where Adam Sandler plays a novelties salesman who is henpecked by his sisters. |
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The salesman pointed out that they don't keep so much stock at the shop, it's held at the warehouse that services all the local shops. |
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Here the salesman gave a broad smile, an action that made him look more caprine than the beast on the line. |
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Once the customer has made a decision, the salesman calls up a three-dimensional image on his computer screen. |
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How about a deliveryman with too many stops on his morning route, or a salesman with too many appointments on his daily calendar? |
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One of the first items my mother bought was an electric vitamiser from a travelling salesman. |
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As I stopped to check it out I was swooped upon by the salesman and was given the big spiel. |
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The salesman referred to APP's founders, the Widjajas, an ethnic Chinese clan from Indonesia. |
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The salesman at the counter though said not a word merely nodding toward a door behind him. |
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A salesman asked if he could help me, but I said I was just having a browse. |
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Born in Mossenberg, he completed an apprenticeship as a salesman, completing his high school exams at night school. |
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This is a sneaky development, an under-hand, sleazy way of slipping a salesman into your home without you knowing. |
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Sarah is too smart to be taken in by the humble doorstep salesman, too cynical to fall for slick advertising patter. |
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Lightening, is a master of fooling, his business as the salesman in Miffin's drapery emporium being exceedingly funny. |
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Simon, a middle-aged salesman, came to see me requesting a prescription for a sleeping pill. |
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A salesman down to his bones, he took to selling stock, especially penny stocks. |
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So his dogged belief in his ability as a salesman doesn't come off as gumption and moxie, instead he comes off as delusional. |
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He was working as a meat products salesman during the 1960s, when his chance to run the pub came out of the blue. |
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The former salesman is working as a DJ at a local radio station on the Isle of Man as he tries to raise the cash for his flight. |
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It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure. |
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For four years he worked as a door-to-door salesman selling knitwear from a suitcase before using his savings to open a wholesale warehouse. |
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This cartoon used two of Bill Sanders' favorite characters, John Q. Public and a fast-talking salesman in a plaid sports coat. |
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It is where the former snooker superstar, cocaine addict, failed car salesman and landscape gardener, now whiles away his hours. |
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According to a salesman, bags, lunch boxes, water bottles, umbrellas for kids and pencil boxes are the most in-demand items. |
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In Arizona, Patrick Gorman has started a new career as a real estate salesman. |
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All he needed was a pair of check pants and a straw hat and he'd look like the consummate car salesman. |
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During a stopover in London, she's fixed up with a nameless salesman who tries to trigger her secret kink. |
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Ledoc had turned out to be a salesman of silver crafts, from weapons to small trinkets and necklaces. |
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Finding a comfortable spot for a nap in a passenger terminal is like trying to find a Bedouin shoehorn salesman. |
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Jeff Bridges plays a millionaire car salesman and widower who, after developing a soft spot for the racehorse, saves it from the knacker's yard. |
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As any diehard salesman will tell you, overcoming people's objections for not wanting to buy is the biggest test you will face. |
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When the salesman found out I was military, he started knocking the price down. |
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It was impossible not to like this energetic chameleon, this part salesman, part bit actor, and part seducer. |
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The travelling salesman problem belongs to the large class of nondeterministic polynomial time complete problems. |
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Mild-mannered yet talkative dental supplies salesman, Andy goes to Detroit to give a speech at a dental convention. |
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I was then a vacuum cleaner salesman for 2 years, selling vacuum cleaners door to door. |
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A teacher and an underwear salesman were already seated on stools around the upturned box that doubled as card and coffee table. |
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Other characters include a gang of lads and a gaggle of girls on a night out, a tacky DJ, a hotdog salesman and a cabbie. |
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He lived in the Melbourne slums earning a few pounds as an insurance salesman and a watch repairer. |
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Born in October 1934, the twins were among ten children of a Scottish travelling salesman and his wife in west London. |
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A little old lady answers a knock at the door where she's accosted by a vacuum cleaner salesman. |
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In the travelling salesman problem, you have to find the shortest round trip visiting every town exactly once. |
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They inserted a metal plate and signed him off from his job as a computer salesman for up to three weeks. |
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He's not the worst candidate in the field but he has a bit of dodgy salesman about him. |
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A murder inquiry was under way today into the death of a timeshare salesman who was killed after spending the evening at a country club. |
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What is the expected path length L of the optimum travelling salesman problem tour in Euclidean norm? |
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Then I got into a heated argument with the snotty salesman who would not allow me to test it outside! |
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He earned his living as a trainee architect and a rostrum cameraman, a photocopier salesman and later as a debt collector. |
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Berns studied classical piano as a child, and worked as a record salesman, music copyist and session pianist in his teens and twenties. |
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And assure yourself that you are committing to the best product, not just the one that pays the salesman good commission. |
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Despite her refusal to buy anything, the salesman measured her bed while she lay on it and plumped up pillows around her back and feet. |
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The principal players include a seaweed salesman, his reluctant wife, his overbearing mother-in-law and her lunkheaded son. |
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I am firmly entrenched in the middle class, from the balding, white-looking salesman demographic. |
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We were both ready to jump on the salesman and end up being arrested for assault but left with a few choice words from Debbie! |
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The salesman then sold him what my pal thought was a term insurance policy, which only pays out on death and has no cash-in value. |
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Then I moved to Canberra and got a job as a salesman selling histories of surnames and coats of arms. |
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Many small business owners are also the finance director, the chief salesman and the dispatch clerk. |
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The travelling salesman problem is of fundamental interest to mathematicians and physicists, and has a number of practical applications, such as computer design. |
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The salesman gave us a demo of the vacuum cleaner, and it seemed to work very well. |
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She got constant callbacks from the salesman even after she asked him to stop calling. |
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In the same interview, he told an anecdote about what it means to be a good salesman. |
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He worked as a used car salesman for a time, owned a convenience store, and even a kebab shop. |
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Beck is such a good salesman that Food Insurance even sells the Glenn Beck basic kit and the Glenn Beck deluxe kit on its website. |
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You also starred in Death of a salesman on Broadway with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. |
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Well, there is certainly ego in the Renaissance artists and, further back, in the self-promotion of a salesman such as Columbus. |
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The 289-page satire follows Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman who gets seduced by a lonely receptionist. |
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And he would go out in this suit like a door-to-door salesman, and basically walked around Boston. |
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Having dropped out of school, the young man worked as a garage mechanic in Sydney and later as an insurance salesman and part-time watch repairman in Melbourne. |
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Despite a perfect marriage to the perfect lady, he spent his time on the road as a travelling salesman, making friends and accepting every opportunity presented to him. |
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I was chatting to my mum the other day about the day she got the lino salesman round with his book of tile-effect, brick-effect and patterned flooring. |
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Jeff's undeterred, and, using binoculars and the long lens of his camera to get a close-up look at what's going on, comes to believe the salesman is acting suspiciously. |
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As a small business owner, you are not only the head honcho, but also the bean counter, chief salesman, IT boffin, tax specialist and marketing guru too. |
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I'm not a salesman and I don't peddle Bibles to make a living, but it's as if I experienced some alternate universe where I knew what it was like to be a sad sack salesman. |
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Danny had gotten the hog used from a Killeville insurance salesman. |
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A Swedish salesman, Persson was touring the U.S. when he discovered an unusual store that turned over its merchandise quickly and sold it inexpensively. |
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You have to be part equipment salesman, part mind-reader, part therapist. |
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They reminisce about the transformation of Gregor from a clerk to a successful traveling salesman, bringing home mountains of hard cash for the family's pleasure. |
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Late in the fall of 1879 a traveling salesman visited the Alfred Shaker village, taking advance subscriptions for a history of York County, Maine. |
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Except George Spahn had no such dream, nor was he a midwestern Model T salesman. |
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Instantly there flashes to mind the image of a carpet salesman in the Istanbul bazaar trying to wheedle me into his stall. |
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They struck gold simply because most of society consider lawyers as bottom feeders somewhere on the ladder beneath used car salesman and alphabet network anchormen. |
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Recently I've added a bread knife I bought at a trade show because the salesman made me think I couldn't live without it, and a box of baking tubes. |
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At home, her mother continually berates her soft-hearted salesman father for what she sees as the poor business skills that keep them on the edge of poverty. |
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Rajkumar Jeswani, a spare parts salesman from Ahmedabad, worked overtime to put together enough money to feed his family while he was away and for his ticket back. |
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Hardly a reassuring forecast coming from a former casino croupier and Ponzi scheme salesman. |
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Trevor, depressed and suicidal, blames Dave for his demise, but is persuaded to work at the Garage and soon becomes the best car salesman in town. |
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His father was an engineer turned salesman and his mother a retail buyer. |
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But as a salesman, he's actually quite a natural, restlessly promoting a product that doesn't look any prettier than he does. |
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His inability to lie means that he has trouble selling a stick of furniture in his position as a salesman with the Jack Jones Office Furniture Company. |
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One of the things I like most is chancing upon a salesman trying desperately to sell an item that no-one, but no-one is stupid enough to want to buy. |
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He became a schoolmaster until his first West End success with a Chekhovian domestic drama about an insurance salesman incapable of fulfilling his own dreams of a better life. |
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But possession breeds use as every apprentice office equipment salesman knows full well, and the contrivance that was unwanted yesterday becomes indispensable today. |
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You're wedged in seat 21B between a nonstop chatterbox who thinks you care about her granddaughter's spelling bee and a flatulent salesman who enjoys scotch and snoring. |
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He held out his hand like a salesman glad-handing a prospect. |
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He proudly boasted he had never lost a salesman he wanted to keep. |
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Another salesman told me the focus was no good for close-up pictures. |
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Actually, I ran out to conduct a chair lift demonstration for our salesman M.K. and his buddies who were dying to see how the whole set-up worked. |
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Local bigwig Jim Rennie, a used-car salesman and councilman, looks to use the dome to seize control of the town. |
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He was Frank Blaney, 37, a travelling salesman, of Skryne, near Tara, Co Meath. |
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Talking to friends, everyone says I'm a good talker and a natural salesman so I thought about blagging. |
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Another thing for a Jew to do would be to become a salesman. |
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Repp cooks for two daughters and her husband, Ted Roy, a salesman at Ronny's Stereo. |
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The salesman persisted in quoting a rate higher than was listed, until we called him on it. |
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After being sacked from Chelsea on 23 April 1981 Hurst worked as an insurance salesman for Abbey Life. |
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An insurance salesman wipes his brow over the fine print, over his wobbly legged foldup table. |
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His primary opponent, Raphael Herman, is a real estate salesman who frankly admits he knows beans about insurance. |
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Featured is David Brent lookalike Tim, who is fed up with his day job as a cardboard packaging salesman. |
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When there was a shipping delay, the salesman jollied the purchasing agent along to keep him from canceling the order. |
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I gave the salesman an Irish hint that he wasn't welcome by slamming the door in his face. |
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Service providers would typically look for an inside salesman and would be looking to understand the personal as well as the business drivers. |
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I used to be an inside salesman. My job was to sell via phone and online, and to support several outside salespeople as well. |
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Born in a Swansea council house on September 8, 1921, Sir Harry was the son of a travelling salesman. |
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The van driver, a travelling salesman who does not drive fast, has told us she veered across the road towards him. |
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Frederick and David, 63, are the sons of a travelling salesman from Kilmarnock. |
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Born in Cardiff in 1913, he was the son of a travelling salesman and followed his two elder brothers into journalism. |
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Ed Bolden is hardly a snake oil salesman, but you can't blame anyone who thinks he's selling something that seems too good to be true. |
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The main theme of the festival is the unsolved travelling salesman problem. |
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Travelling salesman problem is one of the most challenging problems among combinatorial optimisation methods. |
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A TRAVELLING salesman takes a child's birthday cake to a widow he's trying to impress. |
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But when bad weather grounds his plane, he is forced to team up with slobbish loudmouth salesman John Candy for a madcap journey across America. |
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Jason is a particular breed himself, a mail-order salesman of animals. |
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The car salesman came home with front-row seats after turning a hat trick at work. |
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It is the world of the snake oil salesman, peopled by devious wide boys, slimier than a bag of eels who think they are our masters. |
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Brian tells the salesman they'll be phasing out fridges and freezers for faxes and flip phones. |
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That's a way of doing business that the sleaziest archetypal auto salesman might envy. |
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Canner, engraved on the back and in recognition of his achievements as a salesman. |
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It is up to Cameron show he is a potential prime minister and not just a media-savvy snake oil salesman. |
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But like a second rate salesman, his silver tongue disguises the shabby substance. |
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As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze. |
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Crufts was founded in 1891 by Charles Cruft, a showman who had formerly worked as a travelling salesman for a dog biscuit company. |
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I just wasn't cut out to be a whitewash salesman, so to speak. |
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He worked as a salesman for conservatory firm FAB Systems in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics, before resigning over a pay dispute. |
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Or as Joey, the sleazy, besieged used car salesman in Cadillac Man. |
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I wonder if the seasoned salesman can spot the billionaires on sight. |
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I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman. |
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The salesman presented me with a dizzying array of choices, and I was hard pressed to choose between them. |
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Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase? |
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The salesman was taking up too much time with his nonsense, so I sent him away. |
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When I test-drove the new car, the salesman let me take it out to the freeway to put it through its paces. |
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Much of his job as a salesman involves entertaining clients. |
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You will probably have to pull teeth to get a straight answer from a car salesman. |
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A visit to the penalty box occurs when the salesman has relinquished control of the sales call by immediately answering the customer's question. |
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He looks like a used car salesman, but he's really on the level, so you can trust him. |
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He pitched plots like a door-to-door salesman hawking pots and pans. |
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His boxer, Cauliflower McPugg, had a brain to match his name, and had seen more canvas than a pup tent salesman. |
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By modifying VRP, you attain a capacitive limited task on vehicle routing which is a combination of the travelling salesman problem and loading problem. |
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Jackson and Ben Affleck as a Wall Street lawyer and a stressed alcoholic salesman who take a minor traffic accident personally and engage in a vicious game of oneupmanship. |
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Did the salesman tell you anything new, or was he just full of hot air? |
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I was chanced out of my money by that fast-talking salesman. |
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They really made the salesman jump through hoops before buying anything. |
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That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion. |
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Joanne Rygh, now retired, was a teacher at Pomelo Elementary School 20 years ago when the laid-off fabric salesman knocked on her school's door offering his services for free. |
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The oleaginous salesman convinced me to buy a more expensive car. |
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It's a new taKe on the greasy continental salesman hit in which two sharp-suited con men, who appear to speaK little English stop and asK the way to the airport. |
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Guilt got the better of a computer thief in the German town of Koblenz after the salesman from the computer shop chased him down the street, stumbled, and broke his arm. |
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When I find out that a new thingamajig exists, I get really excited and go off to a shop and bombard the salesman with questions, while my son rolls his eyes in exasperation. |
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I bought my new ride from some nickel and dime used-car salesman. |
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In his unironed shirt, the salesman looked tired and unprofessional. |
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The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract. |
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I feel like the salesman hoodwinked me into buying right away. |
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Frayn was born to a deaf asbestos salesman in Mill Hill, a suburb of London, grew up in Ewell, Surrey, and was educated at Kingston Grammar School. |
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He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted. |
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It was Dynamite Dave, the company's crack salesman and he looked a sight I knew it was dress-down Friday but fluorescent green Hawaiian shirt and shorts? |
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However, when his flight is forced to land miles from its destination, he finds himself sharing a disaster-strewn journey across America with an amiable but slobbish salesman. |
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The car salesman told me that the used Volvo was a nice little runner. |
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The accused, a travelling salesman, denies rape and sexual assault. |
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Salesman Darren decided only the big wheel would do for the big question a month ago, when he bought the engagement ring. |
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In the same way, the sight of his father defeated by unemployment provides Death of a Salesman with its Greek, choric universality. |
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So soon-to-be-Spiderman Andrew Garfield should get the prize for his powerful performance as biff in Death of a Salesman. |
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Teachers and lecturers feel it incumbent upon themselves, when teaching his great works, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, to explain the context. |
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He noted that the work owed much to Robert Bolt's Flowering Cherry and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. |
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