Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Division II to this mess, and Columbia falls into a four-way tie for second place among NCAA football teams currently enjoying non-winning streaks. Columbia joins Tennessee Tech, Graham Valley State and Morgan State--all with 14 losses apiece--on the list of teams who haven't won a game since...
Readers of Anne Tyler novels have come to expect eccentric homebodies (Morgan Gower of Morgan's Passing, Ezra Tull of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant), but none combined oddities as well as Macon Leary. His occupation, for example, is matchless. Would you believe a travel writer for people who hate to travel? His guidebooks, published under the general heading "The Accidental Tourist," answer such questions as "What restaurants in Tokyo offered Sweet'n'Low? Did Amsterdam have a McDonald's? Did Mexico City have a Taco Bell? Did any place in Rome serve Chef Boyardee ravioli?" Like his unadventurous readers...
...sales: $1.5 billion) is often characterized as the corporate equivalent of a gawky adolescent. Though no longer a youthful entrepreneur, it remains in many ways immature. "Apple is feeling growing pains and is losing its innocence," says Ulric Weil, a computer analyst who watches the company for the Morgan Stanley investment banking firm...
Meanwhile, trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute decided last August to offer Hughes Aircraft to the highest bidder because of various seemingly insoluble tax and legal problems. It turned to the Wall Street firm of Morgan Stanley to handle the auction. "The Russians would have been happy to make the highest bid," quipped Joseph Perella, a managing director of First Boston, a Hughes adviser. From the outset, GM seemed the most likely buyer. Detroit's recovery had left the largest U.S. automaker with some $9 billion to spend, even after the E.D.S. acquisition, and Smith badly wanted Hughes...
...Morgan and others involved describe the committee as broadly representative, with members from most of the University's various schools. Morgan says she hasn't heard any complaints or proposals for improving the system, which she says she feels "works quite well." She declined to comment on Dershowitz's proposal that at least some degrees be awarded by faculty and student ballot, a plan Dershowitz says would ensure that at least some honorary choices reflect the will of the University as a whole...