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  • The business is riddled with self-dealing, unsound investments, unsuitable policies, highpressure selling and unbridled sales expenses.

    Here They Go Again 2008

  • Consumers feel like they are being taken advantage of possibly by highpressure sales so they want to get an advantage; similarly, lots of companies take advantage of this to justify getting more sales and taking advantage of consumers.

    Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Return Policies: Big Surprises in the Little Print 2006

  • The high-speed, highpressure environment we all work in makes effective delegation at once important and nearly impossible.

    Making Work Work Julie Morgenstern 2004

  • The high-speed, highpressure environment we all work in makes effective delegation at once important and nearly impossible.

    Making Work Work Julie Morgenstern 2004

  • Think of it as the “highpressure workplace” still driven by the Stick.

    FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003

  • Think of it as the “highpressure workplace” still driven by the Stick.

    FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003

  • Think of it as the “highpressure workplace” still driven by the Stick.

    FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003

  • It had always been the use of nature's gifts which had interested and motivated her rather than the highpressure world of marketing and big business and she was more than happy to leave that aspect of the business to Paul.

    Past Loving Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1997

  • It had always been the use of nature's gifts which had interested and motivated her rather than the highpressure world of marketing and big business and she was more than happy to leave that aspect of the business to Paul.

    Past Loving Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1997

  • For a variety of technical reasons it was impractical for the Dolphin to operate without all turbines in commission,, so we were reduced to the speed of the slowest, and, without sheathing on it, Cartwright didn't want to push the starboard highpressure turbine above a fraction of its power.

    Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

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