Airlines
oversell flights based on their own analysis of how many passengers will cancel, he said, and it's not in airlines' interest to overbook flights to excess, because then they have to deal with angry passengers.
Out of all those that responded, 86% felt that wireless would overtake and
oversell landline services within the decade.
One need not
oversell the glories of the high-minded gentlemen of yester-year--arguably no one shares more responsibility for the horrors of the Vietnam War than Rockefeller Foundation President and former Secretary of State Dean Rusk--to be struck by the important contributions that these foundations made to public interest, consumer, and environmentalist law in the Sixties and Seventies.
When they are bombarded by spin and
oversell, their defense is "yeah, right." When they can't discern an easy yes or no or sort things from among confusing shades of gray, it is comforting to feel that everything is sort of "like" something - not definitive, just sort of out there.
His book reads unavoidably as
oversell in certain places, but his wealth of detail regarding the dramatic joining of cultures allows us cautiously to share his optimism for Chinas artistic and humanistic future.