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...Even accounting for the blarney of salesmen who will always make their product precious and scarce so you think you'd better act quickly, this still struck me as a harbinger of... something. New York City's northern suburbs, where I live, are home to women who until recently were waiting for the day they could trade their Ford Expedition for an Excursion, maybe some day an Extravaganza that was even more impossible to park. We may shop at Whole Foods and buy hormone-free milk for the kids, but natural sensitivity and ecological awareness stopped at the garage door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Gas Prices Soar, the Marketplace Reacts | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

...weeks to persuade him to create their logo. Glaser's name lent them some instant cool, and that distinctive B is now a familiar New York City signpost. When distributors balked at selling tiny lots of their beer, Hindy and Potter drove the trucks themselves and found salesmen who would patiently teach bar managers and convenience-store owners about specialty beer. They even started distributing rival beers, turning that into a hugely profitable business. "It kept us alive when almost all the other small breweries in our area went bankrupt," Hindy says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beer Buddies | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

...Protestant mother and a Catholic father, Bono describes his faith as "promiscuous." He quotes Scripture and counts meetings with Pope John Paul II and Billy Graham among the most significant of his life. "I try to live it rather than talk about it because there are enough secondhand-car salesmen for God," he says. "But I cannot escape my conviction that God is interested in the progress of mankind, individually and collectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Constant Charmer | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...friends would have thicker wallets once the market equilibrium price replaces the distorted black market. If illicit drugs were legal, then no dealer would ever have problems enforcing their property rights. Instead of suffering theft, a disincentive to industry and commerce if their ever was one, drug salesmen for the first time will be able to call the cops at 2 a.m. “Officer? I need a squad car here right away. My stash has been stolen!” But no good deed goes unpunished; newly legalized illegal drugs will allow for serious industry supervision. A newly...

Author: By Noah Hertz-bunzl, | Title: Ec 10 and My Multifaceted Life | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...Cooper's Testimony Time correspondent Matthew Cooper's account of what he told the grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of CIA officer Plame [July 25] increased my level of trust in journalists several notches above its usual place?that is, below that of used-car salesmen. Cooper admitted that he couldn't make perfect sense of some of his notes, didn't have infallible recall and didn't know all the legal ramifications of everything that happened. He actually seems to think that he can be a little like the rest of us and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/22/2005 | See Source »

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