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lightyear

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Woody the cowboy, its hapless hero, stood up for traditional toys after having been bumped from his place in the affections of a small boy by the flashier appeal of Buzz Lightyear, a chromium-coated space ranger.

There is some evidence that share prices undershoot fair value in the short term (as investors are slow to react to individual pieces of good or bad news) but over-react in the medium term (extrapolating present trends, like Buzz Lightyear, to infinity and beyond).This should, in theory, allow cooler heads to make money.

TOWARDS the end of "Toy Story 3", Buzz Lightyear, Sheriff Woody and the other toys find themselves heading into the maw of a moving-grate garbage incinerator.

It was one of a handful of works acquired by Don Marron, the chief executive of Lightyear Capital and a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The prospect caused the Greek stockmarket to fall by almost 13% on December 9th, its worst one-day decline since 1987.If Syriza does take power and demands a renegotiation, or cancellation, of Greece's debt, Europe's leaders will face a tricky choice between what might be called the "Frozen" and "Buzz Lightyear" options.

Ms Bullock has always been better at light comedy than life-or-death drama, and Mr Clooney sounds distractingly similar to Buzz Lightyear in "Toy Story".

Buzz Lightyear the space-ranger, Woody the cowboy and the other playthings brought to life in Pixar's "Toy Story" (1995) were chosen not simply for their appeal to children though that did no harm at the box office, of course.

'Cowboys & Aliens' is out on 19 August Double trouble Toy Story (1995) Cowboy Woody feels challenged amongst a collection of Hasbro and Mattel favourites when new toy spaceman Buzz Lightyear threatens to become Andy's favourite.

Andy, the owner of Woody the cowboy (voiced by Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the toys, is now 17.

Back at Hamleys, there is a bottleneck at the bottom of the stairs, people lining up to have their photograph taken alongside a life-size model of Buzz Lightyear (built by Brickish members).

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In NASA's Buzz Lightyear-esque formulation, it's "a stepping stone" to "Mars and beyond".

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