Word: disinheritence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December to only 4% in February, an intolerable level for IBM. In addition, the competition promised to get tougher. Atari and Commodore are expected to introduce higher-quality home computers this year priced at less than $1,000. For IBM, it must have seemed like a good time to disinherit Junior...
...they count more against than for him, eclipse him with bright images form the past. Where they were praised too fulsomely, he is bound to be judged too harshly. He inherits the illusions of his brothers' following with the accumulated venoms of their foes; and both tend to disinherit...
...Morgan remains scrupulously objective throughout Maugham. He frequently cites letters and documents, hundreds of which he examined, whenever he discusses any of Maugham's personal affairs over which there was controversy. His explanation of Maugham's attempt to adopt Alan Searle, his secretary and lover, and to disinherit Liza, his daughter, which caused a widely publicized lawsuit and scandal, casts Liza in a more favorable light than most previous accounts...