But she evidently did an exceptional job selling the proposal, because several publishers scrambled to comply.
Mr. Obama may be having a harder time selling his proposal to Congress than he had originally calculated.
If he is successful in selling the proposal, he said, OTB will become a "viable structure under which it can prosper inside the state of N.Y., and I think that's what ought to happen".
The senators included various tax cuts in other areas as a means of selling the proposal as revenue-neutral to Republicans.
(If it's good enough for Susana Martinez... This is certainly how John McCain is selling the proposals put forward by his "Gang of eight" senators.
But Mr. Clinton also suggested that Mr. Gore and his running mate, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, could be selling those proposals better.
While the poll found substantial support for the plan's individual components, more than half of the public say he lacks a clear plan for creating jobs, despite his extensive travels around the country over the last six weeks selling his proposals.
But, just as a management consultant must sell his solutions to his clients, Turner has the challenge of selling his proposals to banks and, more importantly, to regulators across the world.
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1973, he began practicing at a small firm with the lawyer Morton L. Janklow, who was branching out into selling book proposals to publishers for a commission.
"I have a very hard time envisioning how we could sell [a proposal involving] a wet mine to NSF," says physicist Wick Haxton of the University of Washington, Seattle, the proposal's lead investigator.
