Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slumped at midseason when a stroke disabled their best pitcher, J. R. Richard. Fireballer Nolan Ryan faltered in Richard's slot, but Veteran Joe Niekro and a spot starter named Vern Ruhle, 29, rose to the occasion. The man who really sparked Houston's comeback was Joe Morgan, the team's feisty second baseman. Morgan delivered a stirring locker-room lecture to his demoralized teammates one losing Thursday. They went out and won ten games...
Delegates to last week's Washington meeting of the International Monetary Fund could find those gloomy predictions in the latest copy of World Financial Markets, the monthly newsletter published by New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Its editor is Rimmer de Vries, 51, the most respected private forecaster of world currency exchange rates and trade flows. Of the dozens of international bank letters, none has a more influential readership (25,000 select subscribers) than this slender (16 to 24 pages) pamphlet, crammed full of statistical tables and carefully crafted commentary. Says Manfred Wegner, a senior European Community...
...consults with officials of multinational corporations that move large amounts of money. De Vries also regularly travels to Paris, Frankfurt and London, where he enjoys an open door at central banks. Last week during the IMF meeting, he received visitors at an elegant 19th century Georgetown row house that Morgan Guaranty had rented for the occasion...
Houston's veteran second baseman Joe Morgan lashed a 390-ft. triple in the 11th inning and minutes later Denny Walling brought home pinch runner Rafael Landestoy with a sacrifice fly to left field, giving the Astros a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies...
...most Blacks were nowhere near so fortunate. Because white workers often refused to work side by side with Blacks, "a Black man would have had an easier time getting into Harvard than obtaining a job in the factory." Sutton says. A few succeeded--Clement Morgan became the first Black on the Cambridge Board of Aldermen near the turn of the century. Most, though, didn't even bother to finish high school, realizing the training would not make it any easier to find jobs. "On the whole," one historian explains, "there is a deep-seated feeling that it is useless...