Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-driving entrepreneur is now in retreat. Last week, in a coup engineered by angry franchisees, Millard was forced to step down as ComputerLand's chief executive officer. He and his daughter Barbara, 27 whom Millard installed as president last November, relinquished all day-to-day operating control of the Oakland-based company...
Millard's corporate empire has been sagging as well. ComputerLand faces fierce competition from rival retailers like Entre Computer Centers. With a computer-industry slump slowing sales, ComputerLand's franchisees besieged Millard and his daughter to reduce their royalty fees, which range from 5% to 8%. Some franchisees claimed that ComputerLand has not honored its pledge to sell computers at cost to franchisees. When the franchisees threatened to sue to enforce the company's contracts, the Millards felt they had no choice but to give up control of their firm...
...last few years in a U-boat contemplating the essence of tubular technology, the Risky Business plot/phallic line is simple enough: parents vacate, boy stays home, boy meets prostitute, boy and prostitute open brothel in the folk's house, boy loses girl, boy loses furniture (prostitute played by daughter of noted conservative TV talkshow host). It's yer basic bare bones plot. While Joel calls himself a businessman, he's really just the businessman's Girl Friday, and the businessman's the girl in the world's oldest profession...
...Daughter of Venus: New Ehrlich, 539 Tremont St., Boston Center for the Arts, near Copley Plaza...
Gilbert is survived by his wife, the former Emma Cohen; his two sons, Walter Gilbert '53, a Nobel Laureate and fellow in microbiology here, and Alan Gilbert, a professor of international studies at the University of Denver; his daughter, Joanne Schwartzberg of Chicago; and six grandchildren...