Word: morgans
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Playwrights Horizons has become probably New York's foremost showcase for new stage writing. Its second, smaller space is now home to Driving Miss Daisy, an intimate tale of a Southern Jewish woman (Dana Ivey) and her black chauffeur (Morgan Freeman), told in vignettes ranging from just after World War II to the era of the civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal...
...ground. Created in 1970, the consortium is funded by publicly and privately owned aircraft builders in France, Britain, West Germany and Spain. But it did not sell a single jet to a U.S. airline for seven years. Says Robert Kugel, an aerospace analyst at the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "U.S. carriers wouldn't touch European airliners with a ten-foot pole. They had a reputation for poor quality and maintenance." That perception gradually changed. By 1987 some 360 of the medium-range A300 (up to 375 passengers) and the A310 (250 passengers) were flying under the banners of 58 airlines...
...Meters--1. x--Steve Morgan, Princeton, 20.72; 2. Ron Davis, Army, 21.10; 3. Charles Matthews, Princeton...
This week a significant chink may open in the Glass-Steagall wall. The Fed is expected to rule on the application of three major New York banks -- Citicorp, Bankers Trust and J.P. Morgan -- to begin securities underwriting. Their application depends on an interpretation of Glass-Steagall that would allow a modest amount of such activity within a bank holding company. The five Fed governors are believed to favor their bank petition. But those worthies were warned last February by Robert Downey, a partner in prestigious Goldman, Sachs, that such a decision could "change the financial world forever...
...investor has done better than George Soros, 56. During the past two years alone, the soft-spoken, Hungarian-born manager of a fund known as Quantum has amassed a staggering $1.5 billion in profits for himself and a small group of foreign investors. Says Barton Biggs, global strategist for Morgan Stanley: "Soros really is a genius, our all-time champion...