That makes the league somewhat immune to the recent trend of billionaires buying clubs as playthings.
Compared with bonds, stocks act like doggy playthings but in the long run outperform bonds.
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Perhaps right now hybrid cars and electric cars only the playthings of the wealthy.
They were the playthings of politicians, given to them as the spoils of electoral victory.
"It is imperative for African or any non-white child to possess or have access to playthings that reflect their image positively, " she says.
The nasty stuff involving the toy-abusing Sid is a trifle scary, too, particularly when his cannibalized playthings appear to menace Woody and Buzz.
"We have no proof, "he cautions, but the implications are clear: Derived from the playthings of nobility, a bourgeois toy became once more a bauble of royalty.
While lead paint in toys grabs headlines these days, fueling parental nightmares and hearings on Capitol Hill, parents would be wise to worry far more about other playthings.
They will likely be consolidated into a handful of massive legal proceedings centering on certain funds' habit of letting market-timers and after-hours traders make playthings of the portfolios.
Others in the early 20th century saw that the law must reflect the new circumstances of an urban, industrialised America where workers were playthings in the hands of giant corporations.
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If the various Toy Story incarnations opened a door to the secret life of playthings, this book goes one step further by providing a touching, behind-the-scenes look from the minds that created it all.
"In addition to a black child owning dolls and other playthings that positively reflect their image, exposure to literature, art and other positive images will aid in the development of a healthy cultural awareness and appreciation, " she says.
For example, nine of the 20 football clubs in the English Premier League last season were owned by foreigners. (The final count was eight: no amount of American cash could have saved Derby County from relegation.) One or two may be rich men's playthings, but most have been bought for the media rights, ticket sales and merchandising.
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