Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schiff was considered the only man whose influence in American railroading equaled J.P. Morgan's. His immense wealth and power and his close friendship with then-President of the University Charles W. Eliot enabled him to gain a building for his collections on Divinity...
...reasons for their choice of career. Tammy Frantz, 20, of North American Nannies, disliked the assembly-line approach in her previous job at a day care center. As a nanny she stands to double her salary. Says she: "I wanted to work individually, to see kids grow up." Pat Morgan, 41, grandmother of a two-year-old, switched to nanny school after getting an accounting degree because, she complains, "accounting was boring. I can't imagine babies ever being boring." Alice Naumetz, 56, left clinical education work for Philadelphia's Nanny School and the chance for a more glittering life...
Takeovers in the oil industry are likely to go on "as long as you have undervalued assets," according to Joseph Fogg III of the New York investment banking firm Morgan Stanley. For its part, Phillips can rest easy. Pickens promised not to launch a new battle for the company for at least 15 years, and Icahn agreed to stay away for eight. But those may be meaningless pledges. With all its new debt, Phillips has lost much of its luster as a takeover target...
...Charles Schultze, who was President Carter's chief economic adviser: "I do not see the dollar in a free fall. Central bank intervention by itself in the markets is not likely to do any good in the long run." Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist of New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust, thinks that the dollar may remain strong because foreigners are eager to invest their money in the vibrant U.S. economy. Said he: "No other major Western nation has had such a combination of high growth and low inflation...
Finally, in calling for a mobilization of the world's women, Morgan need no sound as exclusionary toward reform minded men, since her goal is to end discrimination of all kinds. When she writes of a "global movement of women that will have enormous impact through the end of the century," she evokes the hopes of women worldwide, but she also risks the exclusionary attitude that so plagues the male-dominated societies portrayed in her book. For as the anthology contributers so eloquently express, it is only when women and men work together in all spheres of life, and understand...