Feeney keeps a toy model of the Terminator in his office, along with hundreds of other familiar 10-inch plastic characters.

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In this tinker-toy model, you might expect the late Fall and Winter to be the time with the lowest shadow rate and in effect the easiest monetary policy.

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As it happens, the Tesla Model S is a fantastic toy for the rich, and the rich seem to love it.

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Among the desk decorations, the occasional conventional baby photo seems almost ridiculously un-ironic, amid other personal props like a horde of model dinosaurs riding motorcycles, cuddly toy gremlins with shocking pink fur and knobbly yellow stress balls.

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The toy reached its apotheosis in 1931 in the Model No. 10, weighing more than 45 kilograms.

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The toy reached its apotheosis in 1931 in the Model No. 10, weighing more than 100 pounds.

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Disney, which has recently announced its own ambitious Disney Infinity video game and toy line, is making a sound business decision to move to a licensing model.

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