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...almost a year of buildup, Mattel is rolling out a line of seven interactive products led by three Barbie programs. Analyst John Taylor of Arcadia Investment expects Barbie to be among the top software entertainment programs this Christmas. Unlike such shoot-'em-up, beat-'em-up boy toys as Doom and Mortal Kombat, the Barbie titles are notably pacific and based on creative play. "The demand will be many times higher than Mattel thinks it will be," predicts Gary Jacobson, a senior vice president at the brokerage Jefferies & Co., who has followed Mattel for a decade. "The orders [from retailers...
...look forward to next season without trepidation. Apparently, no one told the owners. Owners of the Chicago White Sox and Cubs, Florida, Kansas City and Montreal are known to oppose the agreement, with Boston, Cleveland, Houston, Minnesota and Seattle seen as leaning against the deal. Eight votes against will doom the deal. And that means more of the status quo: no revenue sharing and no luxury tax, both measures aimed at restraining salaries and closing the gap between richer and poorer teams. And for next year, a labor future that is highly dubious. May have questioned why acting Commissioner...
Nostradamus, The Crimson, and other prophets of doom had been mistaken. Nary a multi-color "click" pen had been thrown, nor any "bell-ringing beef" flung upon the arrival of the randomized sophomore class into the houses. Despite valiant attempts to polarize the situation (e.g. disproportionate gender ratios), the class struggle described in Karl Marx's little-known Harvardesque Manifesto has yet come to pass...
...Newspapers are struggling to keep their place as an important source of news for people," says Rem Rieder, editor of the American Journalism Review. "It's easy to write them off as dinosaurs." Yet for all the harbingers of doom, the $48 billion newspaper industry (compared with $12 billion in 1975) is still a pretty good business to be in. In the past, owning papers made families like the Hearsts, the Grahams and the Sulzbergers tremendously wealthy. And even last year, profit margins for the industry as a whole were a respectable 12.5%--nearly twice that of the average Fortune...
...high-speed office networks; it remains to be seen whether it can be delivered over standard modems and phone lines. "The allure of being in front of those 30 million people is awfully attractive," says Bob Huntley, president of DWANGO, a network gaming operation. "But I wouldn't put Doom or Duke Nukem on the Internet...