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...business plan didn't work in either case. Such door-to-door dotcoms, it seems, either can't get enough customers, or get too many that spend too little (thus spending more on delivery costs than they make back on the sale of low-margin comestibles). If I have one clear vision of the future, it's of my slack-jawed grandchildren begging to hear again about what it was like to live in the height of the mythical door-to-door boom. Yes Virginia, you really could get a candy bar and a copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Webvan's Last, Desperate Hope | 7/5/2001 | See Source »

...fourth husband, and she is living with a divorced daughter who has a son. It's not so long ago that you couldn't show a woman divorced from one husband, let alone three." In last week's opening episode, Maude had fairly tame set-tos with a door-to-door salesman and a psychiatrist, but her future outings will include a look at legalizing marijuana and a fling at black-radical-chic party giving ? la Leonard Bernstein. In one episode not yet okayed by the network, she even gets pregnant and decides to seek an abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co. | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...Archie's old unit), Lear was laid off his first job with a Manhattan publicity firm. Then he went bankrupt with his own novelty ashtray business. He took his wife and infant daughter to Los Angeles, where half of his luck improved. He at least survived as a door-to-door salesman of furniture and baby pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co. | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...Villaraigosa's supporters in organized labor and the state Democratic Party said they'd give him a big push, and they lived up to their promise. Starting last weekend, more than 6,000 workers went out in force for Villaraigosa. On election day 3,200 workers went door-to-door to get their own union members to vote. They figured they had their support; they just needed to make sure they voted. One labor official told me it was the biggest get-out-the-vote effort in LA's history. But either some of those voters voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Valedictory for Villaraigosa | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

...drive away. Modalen can scarcely afford to lose any citizens. "This is good for the future," NAmdal says, "an investment in young people." To help Modalen's residents get their connections working, the city has enlisted a technical team of early adopters: a squad of teenage schoolboys who go door-to-door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fjording Ahead | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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