Word: toying
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Jackson has always seemed emotionally bewildered, adrift in a toy boat on a roiling sea outside Neverland. His accuser wins sympathy, but he earns pity. If he never goes to jail, he still seems condemned to solitary confinement in his own bizarre Eden...
...many, the supercollider may seem like aphysics toy that the country can ill afford. Butphysicists are quick to justify its importance...
...heavy-handed marketing campaign, as any business-school student can testify, worked for a while and then backfired. After an initial spurt of sales, word got out that the radical new machine was annoyingly underpowered and grossly overpriced -- a yuppie toy. Although Apple eventually solved most of the computer's problems, IBM compatibles still dominate the personal- computer business. The Macintosh today remains stuck in a niche, with a market share that hovers around...
...hundreds of dollars of their incomes. You can improve your standard of living in far safer ways with that kind of cash. A business-owner in New York City started a program over the holidays with this idea in mind. He offered people a $100 gift-certificate to a toy store for each firearm they turned in to the 34th Precinct. Since then, the "Toys-for-Guns" program has been instituted all over the country with widespread corporate support. Still, one man in New York told ABC News that yes, he had turned in "a few" handguns, but that...
...nation's wine-growing regions. Halliday, who is Australia's leading wine critic, writes with considerable zip and has a fine eye for the offbeat. Profiling the imaginative "Gunny-Bunny" team from Sonoma County's Gundlach Bundschu winery, for example, he notes that they once donned masks, waved toy guns and hijacked the famed Napa Valley Wine Train, forcing its startled passengers to sample Gundlach Bundschu wines...