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...soared to ever more dizzying heights, Bubka has come to be seen as a man who does not break barriers so much as toy with them. More than a dozen of his world records have been by one inch or less. Cynics take note: each of those minor increments triggers a lucrative bonus of as much as $50,000 from meet promoters and equipment sponsors. The parsimonious control with which Bubka seems to measure out these achievements has raised eyebrows among purists, who suspect he may have turned the pole vault into a kind of personal cash machine by slicing...
...Toys "R" Us claims to have the best selection in town. No wonder, says the Federal Trade Commission, which last week charged the world's largest toy retailer with illegally using its 20% share of the $19 billion U.S. toy industry to pressure manufacturers into withholding their hottest products from warehouse discounters. In denying that Toys "R" Us had done anything wrong, CEO Michael Goldstein declared that the company had an "unquestionable right to refuse to carry the same items as warehouse clubs." Goldstein said he was "astounded" that the FTC would bring such a complaint against what amounted...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Federal Trade Commission voted Wednesday to file antitrust charges against toy retail giant Toys R Us. The commission accuses the company of "using its market power to keep toy prices higher." Regulators charge that Toys R Us keeps prices up by using its size to pressure toy manufacturers not to sell to rival retailers. Manufacturers say the company will not buy products carried by large warehouse clubs, in effect using the clout of a company that accounts for more than one-fifth of the $19-billion-a-year U.S. toy business to keep suppliers selling only...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Federal Trade Commission voted Wednesday to file antitrust charges against toy retail giant Toys R Us. The commission accuses the company of "using its market power to keep toy prices higher." Regulators charge that Toys R Us keeps prices up by using its size to pressure toy manufacturers not to sell to rival retailers. Manufacturers say the company will not buy products carried by large warehouse clubs, in effect using the clout of a company that accounts for more than one-fifth of the $19-billion-a-year U.S. toy business to keep suppliers selling only...
They are. Hours after Super Mario 64 arrived in Seattle, TIME correspondent David S. Jackson took it and several other games for a test run. Playing Mario 64, he reports, is like jumping inside the movie Toy Story. The plot line, something about a princess and a bad guy named Bowser, is, as always, almost irrelevant. What matters is that the Silicon Graphics chip-fueled Nintendo 64 puts the fastest, smoothest game action yet attainable via joystick at the service of equally virtuoso motion. Mario runs, flies, swims, dodges and flips his way past a bewildering welter of walls, ramps...