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In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. [1] Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees which are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee.
The generalized second-price auction (GSP) is a non-truthful auction mechanism for multiple items. Each bidder places a bid. The highest bidder gets the first slot, the second-highest, the second slot and so on, but the highest bidder pays the price bid by the second-highest bidder, the second-highest pays the price bid by the third-highest, and so on.
GGPO (Good Game Peace Out) is middleware designed to help create a near-lagless online experience for various emulated arcade games and fighting games. The program was created by Tony Cannon, co-founder of fighting game community site Shoryuken and the popular Evolution Championship Series.
If you happen to still own one of those original Samantha dolls, along with accessories and outfits, you might be sitting on a fortune worth a lot more than a doll-sized amount. Photo credit: eBay
Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for more than fifty years. Paris-made fashion dolls from the Théâtre de la Mode (1946) on display at the Maryhill Museum of Art. Many fashion doll lines have been inspired by Barbie, or launched as alternatives to Barbie. Tammy was created by the Ideal Toy Company in 1962. [21]
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Madame Alexander's Wendy doll, from the 2004 Total Moves collection. The company's most popular doll, the 8-inch Wendy doll was introduced in the 1950s. There is also their first fashion doll, Cissy, and Pussycat, a vinyl baby doll. [1] Alexandra Fairchild Ford is a line of 16-inch collectible fashion dolls created for adult collectors. [3]
The doll comes with a detailed backstory, eventually expressed in the novelization Gene Marshall, Girl Star.The character Gene Marshall was born in Cos Cob, Connecticut, in 1923, and was discovered by the filmmaker Eric von Sternberg while working in New York City as an usherette.