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...harbinger of things to come. Mattel, the world's largest toymaker, may begin to follow a similar business model with other brands it owns, relying more on direct-to-consumer marketing to avoid the retail price-slashing wars that have rocked the industry, says Oppenheimer analyst Linda Bolton Weiser. Mattel's Fisher-Price division is already sending out its own catalog. Can Hot Wheels bumper-car birthday parties be far behind...
...Most people don't view their residence as a capital asset, but that's exactly what it is," says Andrew Pincus, a tax lawyer at the accounting firm M.R. Weiser in Edison, N.J. He doesn't endorse frequent moves. But he advises anyone contemplating an addition to think about moving instead. One of his clients did just that and figures to save a bundle. The client paid about $400,000 for his first house, which roughly doubled in value. He wanted more space but liked his neighborhood and considered building a big addition. But he soon would have been amassing...
...Weiser cited the prevalence of laptop theft oncampus as an example of the crimes Princeton hopesto prevent with locked dormitories...
This fall, Princeton started a program sellingsubsidized laptops to students and, so far thisyear, six have been stolen. According to Weiser,five of the students admitted that their roomswere probably not locked at the time of theburglary...
According to Weiser, student reaction to thenew system has been mixed. But he said hebelieves the anxiety over the new system will goaway as the students get used...