Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyone who wanted to buy the toy company Selchow & Righter in 1984 would have paid an outsize price, like $200 million or so. At that time the company was hotter than hot, thanks to the board game it manufactures, Trivial Pursuit. But last week, when the company finally agreed to be sold, it went for a much smaller price: $75 million. The firm's acquirer: Coleco, the company that manufactures another smash hit, Cabbage Patch dolls...
Selchow's value has fallen because Trivial Pursuit proved to be a fad. The manufacturer's annual sales of the game plunged from $400 million two years ago to roughly $50 million now, estimates Paul Valentine, a toy-industry analyst. In contrast, Coleco's Cabbage Patch annual sales rose 11% last year, to $600 million...
With this advantage, Harvard began to toy with the Brown players, lofting the ball over their heads when an aggressive swimmer would swim straight at them. A few passing sequences between Withy and Ogilvie led to scores which widened the lead to 7-3, put the game out of reach, and earned Harvard its second place finish in the tournament...
...industry that has responded slowly to the oil-price drop appears to be the $80 billion petrochemical business. In Worcester, Mass., Robert Freelander, owner of Come Play Products, a toy firm, notes that the price of some of his plastic items will be the same this Christmas as last. The reason: "Manufacturers have not been given a reduction in the price of materials. Since December, the cost of polyethylene has gone up about 3 cents a lb." Executives at the floor-coverings division of Dan River Inc., in Greenville, S.C., are less than elated with the results...
Authorities theorize that Henry entered the unlocked dorm, went to the third floor and entered freely into Cleary's unlocked room. Henry allegedly strangled her with the spring wire from a wind-up toy, The New York Times reported Wednesday...