Word: micros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relying on acquisitions for sales growth. Last year Mattel purchased Learning Co., a maker of educational software with sales of $850 million, for $3.8 billion, and Pleasant Co., maker of American Girl, for $700 million. Not to be outdone, Hasbro picked up Galoob, maker of Star Wars figurines, and Micro Machines for $220 million, Furby founder Tiger Electronics for an additional $335 million and Pokemon licensee Wizards of the Coast for $325 million. When that becomes your business--buying ideas and then marketing the hell out of them--you had better be good at all the gritty, very adult details...
...cross between Crazy Eddy and the Micro Machine Man, Molly Shannon ("Saturday Night Live" and Superstar comedian) possesses the spontaneous energy considered charmingly refreshing among celebrities, yet perhaps more typical of the mentally deranged. Loud, hyper and spastic, I initially attributed her behavior to a hearty intake of speed prior to our phone interview. But after listening to her answer question after question, I became increasingly impressed by her sincerity and her down-to-earth goofiness...
...This School Committee has micro-managed to an extent that I thought was not possible," he said...
...countries. I'm not sure what I'll do with so much power--probably work toward world peace or play poker, as usual. Still, it'll be a comfort. In the meantime, I've been sampling the latest, fastest chip off the block: a 650-MHz Athlon, from Advanced Micro Devices. The new chip, also known as the K7, is slated to ship later this month on selected Compaq Presario and IBM Aptiva 865 machines. For the first time in ages, beleaguered AMD has a speed edge over rival Intel, whose Pentium III chips chug away at (yawn...
...fingerprint-enabled handgun, being developed by Oxford Micro Devices, will use a miniature electronic fingerprint-capture-and- verification device built into the handle of a gun to identify the owner and prevent unauthorized users...