Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexander Morgan Capron, a sandy-haired professor of law at Georgetown University, stood at a blackboard in a hearing room of Congress's Rayburn Office Building and began writing formulas: the symbols represented ten different ways of making babies. The fourth formula that he chalked up read XM & YD by AΙ with Gestation M, meaning that a married woman is artificially inseminated by a male donor's sperm. The fifth formula, XD & YM by IVF with Gestation M, meant that the beginnings of life could be created through the uniting in a laboratory dish (invitro fertilization...
...Linda Morgan...
...Douglas Morgan Sr. Dillon...
...curators, Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Pierre Rosenberg, with the help of Nicole Parmantier and other art historians, have condensed the existing scholarship on Watteau, together with a great deal of their own, into a catalogue that now becomes a standard work. It shows no trace of the puffy garnish of superlatives considered obligatory for blockbuster shows in U.S. museums. The authors discriminate severely: "The execution lacks energy and seems pasty," runs the note on one painting from the Hermitage in Leningrad. "The figures are unsteady, the faces have no character or charm...
...argument among investors and market watchers is whether they are witnessing just a brief spurt or a true second leg on the bull market that would take the averages even higher. John Paulus, the chief economist for Morgan Stanley, the investment banking house, had a note of caution. Said he: "The economy still has a good deal of upward momentum, which will have to be moderated by rising interest rates at some point. The gross national product rose 8.8% in the first half of the year and is now moving ahead at between 4% and 5%. That is still...