Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barone started his career as a self-described "Information junkie" during his childhood in the Detroit suburbs. Census figures, he says, were a favorite toy. From Cranbrook prep school, he went to Harvard, wrote occasionally for The Crimson's editorial board and graduated magna cum laude in 1966. He passed through Harvard Law School three years later and then spent two years clerking for a federal judge in Detroit. But the information bug never left him. And the idea of the Almanac proved irresistible. "It's the sort of thing I always wanted to read, so I wrote...
...self-proclaimed freedom fighters, terrorists and fanatics and, alas, the children whose legacy it is to be born into a world of arms. One of the 20th century's enduring images may be that of a sad-eyed adolescent cuddling an automatic rifle as if it were a toy...
Electronic games, at first turned out mainly for teenagers, have become elaborately complicated to appeal to adults. At least one toymaker, Mattel, is now making a home computer in an attempt to make up for lost toy sales in the downsize baby market...
...Many toy companies say that they had good reason to jump into the cosmetics business. "We've been losing girls for years," explains Hasbro Vice President Stephen Schwartz. "They're buying records and jeans; they're much more sophisticated than they used...
Unlike the toy companies, Tinkerbell. which sells only cosmetics, toiletries and other grooming aids, considers it inappropriate to promote their wares directly to children. "We would prefer that the parents make the decisions on what to buy," says Greenfield. The commercials featuring Danielle will appear only on adult soap operas and game shows and not on cartoon programs...