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Dialing for dollars |
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Dialing for dollars A term used to describe the practice of cold calling, but which has negative implications as it is frequently applied to salespeople selling speculative or fraudulent investments. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| ``It is where candidates can focus on the needs and concerns of their constituents rather than dialing for dollars. Another local lobbyist said that while he was on the phone with the staff of one of the mayoral candidates, he heard the candidate on another phone in the background actually dialing for dollars. Raising illegal foreign money, renting out the Lincoln bedroom, dialing for dollars in government buildings and attending Buddhist monk fund-raisers are low acts, but desecrating our national cemetery is a low that even the most ardent Clinton hater would find difficult to believe. |
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