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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...
...Scrabble has been translated into 22 languages, from Arabic to Afrikaans. Oddly, the game is sold outside the U.S. by Hasbro's rival, Mattel Inc. By the early 1990s, thanks to its acquisitions of Milton Bradley (maker of Life, Yahtzee and Candy Land) and Parker Brothers (Monopoly, Risk and Trivial Pursuit), Hasbro owned more than half of the $1.1 billion U.S. games market. But in 1993, Mattel outbid Hasbro, paying $90 million for the international rights to the game. Hence the game's weirdly bifurcated homepage at Scrabble.com...
...acidic. Since then, the industry has learned how to address that problem by adding chemicals to the mix, and geologic exploration is underway again. "I think a lot of investors trust Icelanders for what they're doing. They understand the risks involved," says Zammy Sarmiento, president of Biliran Geothermal Inc., the group that won the concession...
...reason politicians may be unlikely to declare war on direct mail is that it yields an estimated $646 billion a year in sales. (The magazine industry, including TIME Inc., which publishes TIME, makes frequent use of direct mail.) "Mail works," says Don McKenzie, CEO of Direct Group, a direct-marketing company. "It's one of the best advertising methods out there." Which means that free-market solutions are likely to remain your best ally in combatting mailbox mess...
...policy,” Braxton said. “There ought to be social sanctions and social incentives.” The other two panelists, C. Shawn McGuffey, professor of sociology at Boston College, and Craig Norberg-Bohm, coordinator for Men’s Initiative for Jane Doe, Inc., were more in the nurture camp. “We have to learn how to kill, how to take power,” Norberg-Bohm said. These speakers emphasized the importance of child-raising, while acknowledging the difficulty in overcoming a “boys will be boys” mentality...