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Examples
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We're just happy to see Irwin Mainway, the controversial toy manufacturer, is back on his feet and working at Kellogg's.
Kellogg's Lego Fun Snacks Sends Mixed Messages To Your Child - The Consumerist 2008
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No one benefits -- except maybe some "Mainway" - like businesses -- when we make our police officers work even harder to distinguish real guns from toy guns.
Paul Helmke: Colorized Guns: Painting Our Police Into A Corner 2008
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Aykroyd played Mainway like a con-man, complete with pencil-thin mustache, slicked-back hair, pinky ring, and tacky polyester sport jacket, whose "toys" and "rides" were some of the worst ever marketed to children.
Paul Helmke: Colorized Guns: Painting Our Police Into A Corner 2008
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Then there was "Johnny Human Torch," a package of oily rags and a lighter, where the child was supposed to pin the rags on his body ( "like a hobo," Mainway said) and light himself on fire.
Paul Helmke: Colorized Guns: Painting Our Police Into A Corner 2008
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In the Irving spots, the calls were to people who had won an item in a Mainway contest.
The age of persuasion Ed Hollett 2007
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The sketches also included Mainway Hallowe'en costumes, such as a military uniform replete with a working rifle; the Invisible Pedestrian costume, ideal for trick or treating that was all non-reflective black; and, a Johnny Space Commander Mask, which was an air-tight plastic bag that attached to the head with a rubber band.
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Played to the hilt by Akyroyd, Mainway, with a straight face and utmost sincerity, touted his dangerous toys insisting that no child could live without them.
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Where Mainway was up front and honest about his manically dangerous products, the things that are being imported from China are stealth toys.
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The man suffered a single gunshot wound on March 12 at Walkers Line near Mainway after being pulled over for running a red light and driving erratically around 7:30 p.m., said the SIU.
Thestar.com - Home Page Liem Vu 2011
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The press release that punctured our inbox this morning attempts to trade on the stabby outlaw allure of original-dangerousness-level lawn darts by mentioning their 20-year absence from the marketplace, but a cursory Google search reveals that you can still buy the genuine article, unassembled, from the Mainway Toys-like death-merchants at lawndartparts. com.
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