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- <text id=90TT3020>
- <title>
- Nov. 12, 1990: Business Notes:Toys
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 12, 1990 Ready For War
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 64
- Business Notes
- TOYS
- A Slap On the Wrist
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> It looks like a 9-in. cloth-covered ruler, but a quick
- downward flick will send it curling around your wrist. And
- before you can say Slap Wrap, you are wearing the newest preteen
- craze. The bracelet's manufacturer, Connecticut-based Main
- Street Toy, sells nearly 500,000 a week (retail price: $2 to
- $2.50).
- </p>
- <p> Consumer officials in Connecticut urged retailers to recall
- a cheap knock-off of the toy last month after the imitation's
- sharp edges cut a four-year-old girl. The real Slap Wrap, which
- carries its name on the bracelet, was excluded from the warning.
- This snappy fad is making some kids downright slaphappy.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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