hard sell, skeptical reception. Harris’s Hope: Getting Right-Leaning Voters to Shift to the Left

Harris’s Hope: Getting Right-Leaning Voters to Shift to the Left

Democrats see a narrow opening to peel away center-right voters bothered by abortion bans and by the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Buyout Plan for Wall Street Is a Hard Sell on Capitol Hill

By MARK LANDLER and STEVEN LEE MYERS 3:43 PM ET

The Fed chairman and the Treasury secretary got a skeptical reception to their calls to enact the financial rescue plan quickly.

LOS ANGELES — The hard sell worked. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” pushed by one of the biggest marketing campaigns in Hollywood history, sold an estimated $151.1 million in tickets in North American theaters over the five-day holiday weekend.


hard sell noun [S]
a method of selling in which the seller tries very hard to persuade the customer to buy something