Word: darth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Understand, the idea of Jobs returning to Apple is something akin to that of Luke Skywalker returning to fight what, until last week, cultists regarded as the evil empire. Gates, by comparison, was perceived as a dweeb Darth Vader, the billionaire bad guy who usurped the idea of the Macintosh's friendly point-and-click operating system for his now dominant Microsoft Windows...
BILL GATES Darth Vader plays white knight. his $150 million is antitrust insurance on the cheap...
With laws, of course, come litigation--so much of it in this case that EPE quickly became known as the Darth Vader of the merchandising-licensing business. "All we want," says Soden, "is to run our business and not have every little schlocky guy around ripping off Elvis and putting his face on edible underwear and all kinds of things that demean the long-term value of what we've got." One of these cases went all the way to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which in an oft-cited landmark 1991 case involving a British retailer named Elvisly...
...stillness is broken by the roar of hundreds of snowmobiles revving up outside motel rooms. In shops, buyers paw over machines that cost $5,500 and up, reach speeds of 100 m.p.h. and come with such amenities as hand and thumb warmers, electric starters and reverse gears. Also available: Darth Vader-type helmets ($250) and his-and-her leather driving outfits ($1,000 apiece...
Amidst the normal tux-like dining hall dress-up attire, some dancers spotted Princess Leia, Darth Vader...