Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 800 manufacturers and distributors for a share of that market. At Mattel, the second largest toy company, with sales of just over $l billion, guards patrol the R&D building in Hawthorne, Calif., as if it were a Strategic Air Command base. Understandably. A successful new product can mean buckets of the stuff that grown-ups' dreams are made of. Coleco came charging out of the Cabbage Patch with its pathetic but lovable doll, and currently ranks third, with annual sales of more than $500 million. Hasbro, the leader, with $1.3 billion in sales projected for this year...
...first, I thought there might not be a line. I mean, I knew there would be people outside the ticket office when it opened at 9 a.m.--but I was going to get there around noon, and by that time they would be gone...
...credit to director Nicholas Martin, who manages to cram it all into the the Agassiz--no mean feat given the size of the company and the dimensions of the stage. But once the entire 26-member cast is up there belting away, it's worth the effort...
Bennett aside, the University's hands-off policy on drugs is both right and practical. Drugs are illegal, but students don't give up their rights to privacy when they attend college. That doesn't mean that college administrators should or do support or condone drug use, nor that universities should stand idly by and let student drug abusers kill themselves...
...does mean, though, that what students do in their own rooms is their own business. It's not for Derek Bok, Fred Jewett, Archie Epps or--least of all--William Bennett to say otherwise. Drug use scores low on the list of pressing problems facing higher education. America's colleges and universities would be better served if its representative in the cabinet channelled his energies toward those problems instead of ranting and raving to draw attention to himself and his noxious ideas...