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...group, which held its second meeting last night, plans dis-Christmas carols, posters of Jesus carrying a shopping bag and mock-battles staged at toy stores busy with holiday shoppers to mark the Christmas season...
...Grinch Army Faction can't persuade holiday shoppers to forego present buying, it aims at least to convince parents that they should avoid buying war toys for their children, Fucella said. Shoppers may think twice before buying toy guns and other weaponsfor children after watching the fake battles intoy stores that the group plans to stage, headded...
...question facing Soviet leaders is how to use this new toy and how to justify its cost. Its real utility, say experts, will be linked to the next- generation Soviet space station. In a tight economic environment, the cost of that project and of the Soviets' huge space effort in general may be prompting some second thoughts. Despite the successes, says John Pike, director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists, "the glasnost-perestroika crowd is somewhat down on aerospace...
...text may remind readers of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, where monks searched for the second part of Aristotle's Poetics, and it would not be a bad comparison. Like Eco, Pavic loves to play games with the textuality of the text--the Dictionary is more toy than book--and, like Eco, Pavic has profound doubts about the power of language to communicate...
...Tyree said the organization is also looking for corporate assistance. The Zayre corporation has already given money for a "toy lending library," to serve families unable to buy toys for their children, she said...