Word: toy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-overdue piece of the $20 billion International Space Station. The builders, having received just $22 million of the $300 million pledged, have yet to finish the module that will serve as the astronauts' living quarters, causing consternation throughout the project. "We're not talking about assembling a Lego toy," gripes a NASA official, pointing out that the work the U.S. is undertaking must necessarily follow that done by Russia...
...accident that Pixar, the computer-animation company, sold its first shares to the public in 1995 while its movie Toy Story was a runaway box-office hit. Or that hockey's Florida Panthers made the move a year later, fresh from their first appearance in the Stanley Cup finals. Nor is it a fluke that Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs, with the market at a historic high, is now mulling an initial public offering of its own. In the business of making your money mine, which is what any IPO is about, timing is everything...
INACTION HERO It's not unusual to see likenesses of actors and athletes in toy stores, but it is unusual to see one of Herbert Hoover. And yet, thanks to the Formative International Co. of Kowloon, Hong Kong, the 31st President is now a doll, one of four in its Leaders of the World series. The others: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison. Our doll's marked-down price...
...front (they wanted to give it the illusion of depth but not be too transparent). They even consulted an expert in candy making to learn how to reliably reproduce its tricky color on production lines. If the final result strikes some users as looking more like a beach toy than a computer, that's just fine with design chief Jonathan Ive. "Steve said, 'Don't make it look like a computer,'" Ive says with a smile...
SMALL SOLDIERS (July 10). After MouseHunt, DreamWorks keeps acting out its Disney animus with this warped take on Toy Story. Nuclear-powered action figures (think of an Arnold doll with Chucky's soul) march amuck. More artillery than LW4, but less bang for the buck...