Word: coleco
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...Brunot and Butts sold the game's rights to a company called Selchow & Righter. Butts received a total of $265,000 in royalties; Brunot got nearly $1.5 million. Coleco Industries Inc. took over after Selchow collapsed in the 1980s and when Coleco went bankrupt, Hasbro Inc. swooped in. In 1994, scandal rocked the Scrabblesphere when Hasbro announced plans to remove nearly 200 words deemed too offensive for the official Scrabble dictionary. The list of words ranged from ethnic slurs to playground phrases like "turd," "fart" and "fatso." Hasbro eventually compromised and published two officially sanctioned dictionaries - one for "recreational...
...most talked-about slump of 1985 was in home computers. Sales dropped to an estimated 2.3 million from 1984's 3.3 million. Companies that had rushed to market with new products were violently shaken out of it. Coleco dropped its Adam computer in January, and IBM stopped production of its PCjr in March. Even so, sales of the more powerful personal computers used in business continued to grow, and demand for some very large units boomed. IBM's long-awaited new mainframe machine, which had been nicknamed the Sierra, costs about $5.5 million, but it still sold so briskly that...