Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy is wheezing at the moment. Industrial production, which grew slowly last year, began to shrink in the second quarter of 1986 (see chart). One main cause of the malaise seems to be companies' reluctance to invest in new plants and equipment. Says Stephen Roach, an economist with the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "Capital spending is in the worst shape for any postwar expansion period." Roach projects that capital investment for all of 1986 will fall by 4.5%, compared with last year. Says he: "Every time such a contraction has taken place, the economy has been either on the brink...
...People Founder and Chairman Donald Burr. The move was forced on Burr by the remaining board members. The insurgents were led by Venture Capitalist William Hambrecht of San Francisco, whose firm raised $23.5 million in the early development of People, and by Charles Phillips, a managing director of Morgan Stanley, People's investment banker. Said an airline-industry expert: "The board has clipped Burr's wings and is now running the show...
...grandee to become the Countess of Romanones. Festooned with diamonds and emeralds, she smiled knowingly as she reminisced: "I hate to say it, but war is fun." High times? Eugene Sherman was 19 and en route to a guerrilla base 100 miles from Canton when Yale-trained Psychologist William Morgan, an OSS major, intercepted him. Sherman remembers that the two repaired to a restaurant and drank much too much at a party that ended when Morgan drew his pistol and shot out the lights. Rough times? Guy Martin, 75, who served in Ceylon, Burma and China, shook his head...
Nearly all the biggest advertising competitors are gobbling up rivals in what Adweek Editor in Chief Richard Morgan calls "a free-for-all." According to the American Association of Advertising Agencies, there were eight mergers in 1984, 19 in 1985 and eleven already announced in the first four months of 1986, most of them involving large agencies. Firms that once expanded by opening a new office are now more likely to buy an existing agency, picking up its client list as well as its creative talent...
...David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, Michael P. Harris, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, JoAnn Lum, Valerie J. Marchant, Naushad S. Mehta, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Barry Rehfeld, Andrea Sachs, David E. Thigpen, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young