Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film's original director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, is threatening to block the movie's release, claiming she never sold remake rights. "I first learned about the project from reading a newspaper at my hairdresser's," says Clouzot. "I can't let a pirate film come out." Production company Morgan Creek insists it bought all rights, but one of the movie's stars, SHARON STONE, has sided with Clouzot. (Stone had her own fights with the producers over whether she was contractually obliged to do a nude scene.) "I'm ashamed to be involved in a production that apparently acted improperly...
...impossible to know the facts. It also makes one wonder why Harvard does not want the City Council to see the facts. As concerned students, we join with community members in demanding that Harvard release their records so the truth of the situation can be known. --Daniel R. Morgan '99 Shoshana L. Weiner '98 Harvard Community for Affordable Housing, Progressive Action Network
...companies and then staged nationwide "road shows" to tout the stock to big investors like mutual funds. The tours generated so much excitement that Netscape, which had been tentatively priced at $12 to $14 a share, went public at $28. Hambrecht's profit for co-managing the offering with Morgan Stanley: $10.6 million...
...Frank Morgan...
...despite the gush of profits, stockholders didn't see a comparable leap in their dividends. And employees took home only 2.7% more in wages and benefits during the year, the lowest increase since the government began tracking compensation in '81. Though turn-of-the-century financier J.P. Morgan argued that a CEO should never make more than 20 times the average salary of a company's employees, the ratio has escalated radically in recent years. In a sample of 292 FORTUNE 500 companies, the ratio was 143 to 1 in 1992 and is now approaching 185 to 1. Says Tower...