Word: slapping
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...looks like a 9-in. cloth-covered ruler, but a quick downward flick will send it curling around your wrist. And before you can say Slap Wrap, you are wearing the newest preteen craze. The bracelet's manufacturer, Connecticut- based Main Street Toy, sells nearly 500,000 a week (retail price...
Consumer officials in Connecticut urged retailers to recall a cheap knock- off of the toy last month after the imitation's sharp edges cut a four- year-old girl. The real Slap Wrap, which carries its name on the bracelet, was excluded from the warning. This snappy fad is making some kids downright slaphappy...
...plan to slap a similar luxury tax on almost all yachts alarmed boat builders all the way from Maine to Texas. So they turned to many coastal-state legislators, including such congressional powers as Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell, top, and Texas' two Senators, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, left, % and Republican Phil Gramm, for assistance. The pressure on the lawmakers was highly effective; the additional tax will apply only to yachts with price tags higher than...
...began with a slap. "We Americans are unhappy," wrote Luce. "We are nervous -- or gloomy -- or apathetic," as well as confused about the world. "And yet we also know that the sickness of the world is also our sickness. We, too, have miserably failed to solve the problems of our epoch. And nowhere in the world have men's failures been so little excusable as in the United States of America...
...bailout as swiftly as possible and how to prevent future financial fiascoes. Proposed remedies range from a complete overhaul of banking and thrift legislation to a soak-the-rich scheme that Joseph Kennedy II, a member of the House Banking Committee, put forward last week. Kennedy's plan would slap surtaxes on individuals with incomes over $100,000 a year and most corporations...