Word: bandai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grinning boys watching steel marbles roll over course that resembles a Disney World ride for reckless ball bearings. Open the instruction book. And -- the horror! the horror! -- it looks like something from J. Robert Oppenheimer's sketchbook. Maybe the words of Johann Stonehouse, national sales and distribution manager for Bandai America, will soothe: "You're not getting your money's worth if it's not hard. It's a challenge. It's a good item for a family project." There! That's it! Family project. Just the thing to work on with the children and perhaps, too, with some holiday...
Past Policies to manufacturers have been "percentile and hoc,"Caton said, citing measure to bail out the floundering Chrysler Corporation. "That approach is like sticking Bandai's on a lackey life boat," he said...