Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...their information from the office of Interior Minister Pierre Joxe. He is an old-line Socialist who, according to one scenario, leaked the damaging details in order to lance the Greenpeace boil before it further threatened the government. Another possible motive for Joxe: to savage Hernu, a political rival. The rumors about Joxe's role as an informer multiplied so swiftly that Le Monde took the extraordinary step last week of running a small item under the byline Gorge Profonde, or Deep Throat, that said Joxe was not the paper's main source. Nonetheless, Le Gendre and Plenel admit that...
...told Israel Shenker in Art News, "despite all the work and all the hours. People will wonder what we've been doing all this time." They found out last week, during a series of official openings. In the first wave came French President Francois Mitterrand and representatives of the rival branches of Picasso's family, which consisted of two wives, four mistresses, one legitimate son and three illegitimate children, including Jewelry Designer Paloma Picasso. Given the artist, a controversy about invitations was inevitable. In a country now governed by Socialists, it was arranged that every Socialist worth his card...
When Steve Jobs resigned as chairman of Apple Computer two weeks ago, it seemed the final act in a stormy corporate drama. But the saga continues. Jobs had enraged Apple's board of directors by starting a rival computer firm and luring five company employees, including senior engineers and marketers, to join him. Jobs' new venture, to be called Next, Inc., is expected to compete directly in Apple's core educational market. Last week Apple lashed back, filing suit against Jobs in Santa Clara County's superior court. The computer company (1984 sales: $1.5 billion) charged that Jobs had "secretly...
...meant to be. For the first ten minutes, the movie accurately portrays the strange environs of scientific research, and Peter O'Toole is marvelous as a mildly comic, Einstein-like scientist. David Ogden Stiers of MASH fame sounds good without his aristocratic air as O'Toole's ruthless rival. But then the Jeremy Leven screenplay begins its long plummet in quality of dialogue, and the less dazzling supporting cast intrudes...