Disney ( DIS - news - people ) and Sanrio's Hello Kitty.

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As company lore would have it, Kitty Hershey was an ingenue from Jamestown, N.

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"The reports that we are hearing are very alarming, " said U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Kitty McKinsey.

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We are happy, for example, to have Hello Kitty embroidery lines done in Shantou in China.

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In the U.S., where tastes are different, Hello Kitty can be purple, green or gray.

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That is why you now see Hello Kitty with a rough crayon-like face line.

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As for Hello Kitty, the 25-year-old character may become as durable as Mickey Mouse.

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Instead of thinking about the grim economic situation, you buy a Hello Kitty refrigerator.

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In the Sanrio edition, the photo is decorated with Hello Kitty and other characters.

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"Hello Kitty is a perennial, " says Bangkok-based Dave McCaughan, director of McCann-Erickson Asia-Pacific Consumer Insights.

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"People cared little about the rigid rules for the Hello Kitty look, " she recalls.

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Now, even women in their 20s and 30s, or even older, buy our Hello Kitty items.

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He has a house, a son, a business and even a licence from Hello Kitty.

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In this video, below, Eve and Kitty role-play both uncomfortable and successful scenarios while Ardella narrates.

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Not a whole lot of kitty litter, but it's pure profit for a company that has none.

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These mini-retail sites are crammed with the toys kids love: Lego, Angry Birds, Hello Kitty, and more.

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Jakes died Tuesday after falling from his bunk bed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk on November 29.

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The thumps are followed by a "rapid decrease in engine sounds, " said NTSB board member Kitty Higgins.

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It also said it was selling equity stakes in state-run firms, to help fill the public kitty.

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Last year, InStyle magazine ran a picture of supermodel Naomi Campbell with a beaded Hello Kitty bag.

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She came up with a black-and-white Hello Kitty, which was plastered on bags and other teen stuff.

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He should have enough money to play with - provided the Hello Kitty craze does not fade.

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There are even Hello Kitty business ties and Hello Kitty baseball pitching machines in Tokyo and Kobe.

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Sanrio, the Japanese merchandiser he founded in 1960, is responsible for the Hello Kitty fad sweeping Asia.

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People ask me what is coming after Kitty, and I always say, only Kitty can succeed Kitty.

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By 1969, less than 75 years after Kitty Hawk, mankind had struck a flag on the moon.

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But with no more money in the kitty that could mean schools in rich areas getting less.

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Two arresting 1947 portraits of his wide-eyed first wife Kitty Garman introduce us to a startled young woman.

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I'm not sure Kitty would have been as successful if it had come out of any other country.

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But they are wise not to say so around a fan, especially one nostalgic for her Kitty-infused girlhood.

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