Word: toye
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Like Buzz Lightyear, the gung-ho plastic spaceman in Toy Story who thought he was real, investors in Pixar Animation Studios have learned that reality bites. Pulled down by the collapsing, technology-driven NASDAQ market, Pixar stock fell 5.7% last week, to close at $16.50, light-years from its November high of $49.50, signaling that the almost cartoonish rush of IPO investing is finished...
...bright and colorful as a toy box, the children's book and gift store opened Friday at 1 John F. Kennedy St. in the heart of the Square...
...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...