Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since John Avildsen, who directed Rocky and The Karate Kid, is obviously not attracted to depressing subjects, you know up front that Lean on Me will lean heavily on Mailer's theorem in telling the Joe Clark story. The estimable Morgan Freeman plays the man who became the last-hope principal of crime- ridden, drug-soaked, graffiti-infested Eastside High in Paterson...
...American League all-star team is named. Oil Can Boyd (6-6, 3.98) is not included. He is enraged and unloads a barrage of fast balls at the new luxury boxes in Fenway Park. He tears a rotator cuff and inadvertantly kills Joe ("I never played for Cincinnati") Morgan when the loveable Sox manager, trying to calm down his excitable player, gets in the way of a pitch...
...positions of power not hiring minorities to run front offices or be field managers, although that is the principal problem. There are corollary difficulties. Some of the most competent and attractive minority candidates are not interested in jobs they've been offered. Or you have candidates like Joe Morgan, who can't just give up businesses that gross millions of dollars a year to go off and become a general manager somewhere. Also, in the post-Campanis era, any new black manager or general manager will be under a microscope and very likely second- guessed on everything he does. Quite...
...athletic, scholarship to Hiram College and interrupted premedical studies for a notable career in baseball that culminated in a $300,000 announcing job with the New York Yankees. It is a pleasing fact that several other black candidates for the league presidency, including former Cincinnati second baseman Joe Morgan, were too prosperous in business to consider the wage. In fact, White is taking an estimated...
...aside part of the stock for employees. At the same time, corporations seeking to repel raiders can use an ESOP as a way to put a chunk of the company into relatively friendly hands. "Every corporate treasurer is looking at it," says Paul Mazzilli, a principal at the Morgan Stanley investment firm. In recent months, three major corporations -- J.C. Penney, Ralston Purina and Texaco -- spent a total of $1.75 billion on ESOPs to shore up their takeover defenses. Procter & Gamble announced plans in January to spend $1 billion to boost its ESOP from 14% of outstanding shares to 20%, partly...