Word: marcus
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With cash scarce and gasoline expensive, more people are staying home and stretching the family budget by doing their own work. Fixing up the old family homestead that has a 6% mortgage is far cheaper than buying a new house. Says Bernie Marcus, chairman of Home Depot Inc., a chain of Atlanta home-improvement centers: "Given the cost of borrowing, less spending money and the fact that they really can't find competent help, some people don't have a choice...
...DIED. Marcus Vinicius Cruz de Mello Moraes, 66, Brazilian poet, dramatist and lyricist who collaborated with Composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on the international hit The Girl from Ipanema and on the musical drama Orfeu da Conceição, which became the basis for the film Black Orpheus; of a lung ailment; in Rio de Janeiro. Moraes served in Brazil's diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night...
...elusive that it took months for scientists to identify it after it struck at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976. Now, it turns out, the bacterium Legionella pneumophila is even tricker than anyone suspected. Researchers Marcus Horwitz and Samuel Silverstein of Manhattan's Rockefeller University have found that it belongs to a select group of bacteria that evade the body's immune system by turning it to their own advantage. Like the microbes that cause tuberculosis and leprosy, the bug is what scientists dub an intracellular pathogen. It invades white blood cells called monocytes, which normally...
...Hollywood's heyday the films were only celluloid, but the cinemas that showed them were marbled citadels of fantasy and opulence. From coast to coast, Paramounts and Paradises, Orpheums and Roxys enfolded audiences in some of the most exuberantly romantic architecture ever conceived in the U.S. As Cinemogul Marcus Loew insisted, "We sell tickets to theaters, not movies." Indeed, from their razzle-dazzle marquees to their wondrous Wurlitzers, from soaring, Sistine ceilings to ankle-deep carpeting, the great old houses were themselves worth the price of admission...
...money will be sent to the main office in New York and earmarked for use in the research program. From there, we have no control over which part of the country the money is allocated," Marcus said. "Close to $200,000 has come back to New England over the past three years," she added...