Word: millard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Millard borrowed $250,000 to expand an Oakland-based computer company called IMSAI. The lender, a Boston-area investment firm named Marriner & Co., got a note that was convertible into 20% of the stock in Millard's company. Last week a California jury ordered Millard to pay up, and the verdict may cost him $525 million, or 2,100 times the original loan. Reason: Millard built a sister company of IMSAI into ComputerLand, the giant retail computer chain (1984 revenues: $1.4 billion), and 20% of ComputerLand's stock is worth a fortune...
Northerners were easier on Rutherford B. Hayes than the experts in other regions. The South had a special feeling for the last Whig, Millard Fillmore. The Midwest gave Truman and Ike an edge. In almost every instance, a historian studying a specific President was more sympathetic to him. Military historians downgraded the Naval Academy's own Jimmy Carter. Afro-American historians rated Jefferson relatively lower; Western and Frontier historians put him higher...
...there is a Girl Next Door [next year], it certainly won't be the Girl Next Door," says Millard Darden '83, the group's drummer. Darden, like numerous other rock musicians on campus, has played his instrument in more conventional groups as well, including the Harvard Jazz Band and various other jazz combos...
...have put in a lot of hard work, and are very optimistic about the season," said Wider man, who scored a convincing first period pin over B.U.'s Ernest Millard in the 118-lb, weight class...
...once toasted Mexico's President with a reference to Montezuma's revenge? A country whose leader once billed his energy program as the "moral equivalent of war"--only to realize later that his phrase formed the acronym "meow"? Jimmy Carter could very easily wind up alongside the Franklin Pierces, Millard Fill mores and Herbert Hoovers who dwell uncelebrated in the sewers of history...