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Overselling the promise of tech based solutions can allow for sexy ideas like OLPC to continue while practical ones like SMS reminders are ignored.
Tom Murphy: How Haute Couture Can Explain mHealth Tom Murphy 2011
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Overselling might be a mutually interesting line of conversation.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Mistake #2: Overselling the benefits of the legislation and the consequences of not passing it.
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Overselling was most always fatal; ultimately, whatever was being advertised had to deliver on its promise, or die.
John Farr: Message to Hollywood: The Viewer Is Not a Moron 2010
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Overselling can come across as desperate and possibly self-centered.
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Reuters, in "Special report: Overselling the American dream overseas," pointed to numerous problems in this essentially unregulated program, in which businesses and developers seeking cheap capital compete to recruit immigrant investors, who must park $500,000 in a purportedly job-creating investment in exchange for green cards for themselves and their families.
Norman Oder: Reuters Nails Promoters of Green Cards for Investments as Liars, Gets Dubious Excuses on Brooklyn Arena Norman Oder 2010
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Reuters, in "Special report: Overselling the American dream overseas," pointed to numerous problems in this essentially unregulated program, in which businesses and developers seeking cheap capital compete to recruit immigrant investors, who must park $500,000 in a purportedly job-creating investment in exchange for green cards for themselves and their families.
Norman Oder: Reuters Nails Promoters of Green Cards for Investments as Liars, Gets Dubious Excuses on Brooklyn Arena Norman Oder 2010
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On Thursday, April 20, the BBC has a show on Overselling Climate Change.
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Overselling is a well known advertising trick that many web hosting companies use to attract more customers, but we don't.
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Extreme Hosting is a proud member of the No Overselling Hosts catalog.
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