Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electrical-engineering degrees from the California Institute of Technology and Stanford and worked first for Raytheon as an engineer. While still in his 20s, he decided to become a stock analyst. He picked up an M.B.A. degree, worked for Coleman & Co., a New York securities firm, and then for Morgan Stanley & Co. and began publishing a highly regarded electronics-industry newsletter...
...lean years. He worked as a hand on sugar-beet ranches and wheeled 100-lb. barrows of concrete as a construction worker at Madison Square Garden during a stay in New York City. The publisher of his first novel, Cup of Gold, a lush fantasy about the pirate Henry Morgan, promptly went belly-up. So did his next two publishers. It was not until 1935, with Tortilla Flat, a somewhat arch dramatization of the lives of Mexican Americans, that Steinbeck had his first success...
...high school. The couple and their two daughters, Tina, 7, by Terry's previous marriage, and Morgan, 2, moved to Virginia Beach, Va., two years ago, when Goodman was assigned to Attack Squadron 85 at Oceana Naval Air Station. Last September the squadron was posted to the Mediterranean aboard the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy...
...time between eras" and requires "a clear vision of the road ahead." A genial man who wears a Ronald McDonald wristwatch and drives a pickup truck, Chandler has his eye on new, nonfilm technologies like picture-recording optical discs. Says Brenda Landry, an analyst with Morgan Stanley: "In a nutshell, Kodak is attempting to become a major participant in the emerging new forms of image making...
...There is no doubt," says Morgan Stanley's Landry, "that during the next ten years the complexion of the photo industry will change more sharply and more rapidly than ever before in its history." Several developments are behind this trend. With 95% of all U.S. households now owning at least one camera, the home shutterbug market is all but saturated. Cameras, moreover, face increased competition from home computers, video recorders and other entrants in the race for the so-called leisure dollar. As a result, many experts doubt that U.S. camera sales will ever again reach...