Word: toy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lackluster Christmas for retailers. Last week Sears, Roebuck, faced with declining sales, announced a salary freeze for 20,000 of its 330,000 employees; Macy's was combatting speculation that recent losses might undermine its already precarious financial position. Meanwhile, Child World, the nation's second largest chain of toy stores, declared a six-week moratorium on paying its bills so that it would have enough cash to keep its shelves stocked through the holiday season...
Meet Grinby, Boingo, GeeGee, Slats, T.K. and Scopes, cousins of the popular Koosh Ball toy -- a "cross between a porcupine and a bowl of Jell-O" that goes "koosh" when you catch...
...past three months, Koosh Kins have ranked among the top 10 non-TV- promoted toys, according to The Toy Book, a trade publication. Says associate publisher Jim Silver: "If ((OddzOn)) created some sort of animation, they could do even better." That may be next. OddzOn hopes to spin off a TV program (Koosh Kin Kartoons?) and may soon have Koosh Kins klinging to sleeping bags and lunch boxes...
Smith said he knew one Southern trial judge who keeps in his chambers a miniature Black man sitting in a "toy" electric chair which he periodically buzzes...
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...