Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they provide "simple pleasures to millions of people every day" with their beer and smokes, they also pay for a lot of paintings. Just for instance, they sponsored "Expressionism: A German Institution of 1905-1920," which toured the country. And an Edward Hopper retrospective. And a Seven-Up toy display titled "Small Folk." And in other ways: when they design cigarette packages and beer bottles. Philip Morris personnel engage in "an endless search for innovative development of quality items with compelling appeal." As the annual report insists...
...Divesting U.S. holdings--which only amount to ten per cent of total foreign investments is a "toy argument," Purnell said, adding, "companies around the world will remain, regardless of our rhetoric...
...ease with which an attack can take place was dramatically demonstrated to Reagan be fore last week's shooting. As then Candidate Reagan campaigned in Miami in November 1975, a college dropout named Michael Lance Carvin, 20, managed to break through the crowd and point a toy gun directly...
Happily, the remedy to his dilemma comes to Nam in a dream: a blue-eyed American sergeant breaks into a bucolic toy community and despoils the place. Animal figurines and little children drive out the invader. So inspired is Nam that he rushes out to the rifle range and knocks off four G.I. targets in a row. As schoolmates cheer, an instructor exclaims, "When you have enough hatred, you can hit them...
Thanks to modern mass marketing, the lunacy quotient may be far higher with the cube. Ideal Toy Corp., which makes the cube under an agreement with a Hungarian state manufacturing company, produced 4.5 million last year (retail price: $6 to $10) and expects to sell far more in 1981. Other companies are manufacturing and distributing versions of the cube, while pirated editions are being turned out in Taiwan and Hong Kong...