Word: morgans
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Last week economists and Government agencies began filling in some numbers on just how severe a slowdown in growth-or how bad a recession-the high interest rates are likely to produce. Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., which had been predicting a 6% rise next year in business spending for new plant and equipment, adjusted for inflation, slashed its forecast to a mere 2.9%, a rise that would Create few new jobs. The Commerce Department predicted that total spending on construction will drop 6% next year, following a 1978 rise...
...total woman caters to her man's special quirks, whether it be in salads, sex or sports," Author Marabel Morgan has declared. Bubble baths, baby-doll costumes and the like having been prescribed in her bestselling books The Total Woman and Total Joy, Marabel has moved on to the kitchen to assemble a total woman's cookbook for publication next spring. Her recipes lean heavily on their titles (Heavenly Peach Pie, Boudoir Cheesecake), and her menus on their scenarios. Thus the You Tiger You meal features a hearty beef Stroganoff and a Reconcile Feast includes stuffed pork chops...
...JOHN MORGAN COSGROVE...
Novelist E.M. Forster's beginnings did not promise a happy ending. There was, first of all, a hint of early mortality. His father, a feckless architect, died of tuberculosis in 1880, less than two years after Edward Morgan was born. That left his care entirely to Lily, his formidable mother, and to a zealous battalion of female relatives and friends. They coddled him mercilessly, dressed him like a fop and spoke of him in his presence as "the Important One." Naturally, the boy grew into a man thoroughly confused about his sex and spectacularly bumbling at practical affairs...
Names like Roosevelt, Kennedy, Saltonstall, Cabot, Lodge, Lowell and Conant are laced across Harvard's final club history with inbreeding and nepotism. There is even a story of J.P. Morgan, who at Harvard was already every bit the stormy and ruthless baron who glares from the pages of history books. Refused membership in the Fly Club, an insulted Morgan decided to build his own final club, the Delphic. For years it was called "the Gas" because its steward kept the gas lights burning all night, making the club appear as a social beehive to passing outsiders. Unquestionably, by tradition...