Word: morgans
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Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust, asserted that the financial woes of some Latin American countries, especially Brazil, have been worsening. Last week the International Monetary Fund and major banks decided to delay more than $1 billion in loans to Brazil because it has failed to take steps needed to narrow its balance of payments deficit. Said De Vries: "One of the critical financial issues facing governments remains international debt." He urged cooperation by banks, governments and multinational agencies like the IMF to pump cash into nations that cannot raise enough through exports to repay their...
...every day that a raving beauty gets to play a ravening crow. So Actress-Photographer Candice Bergen, 37, hopped at the chance to portray the evil sorceress Morgan le Fay in a three-hour CBS epic due this fall called Arthur the King, based on the Round Table legend. "I was relieved not to play the phlegmatic princess," says Bergen. "I like taking things in my own hands." Or talons. Dressed in a darkly feathered cape and one of the alltime great fright wigs, Bergen as Morgan swoops and plots against her half-brother Arthur, played by Malcolm McDowell...
...Monday, when the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 21.87 points, its steepest slide in almost two months. Later in the week, though, the market charged back smartly and closed at 1232.59, another record high. The short-lived sell-off was sparked by Barton Biggs, 50, chief portfolio strategist for Morgan Stanley & Co., the Manhattan investment banking firm that handles $7 billion in investments for clients, including about $5 billion from Kuwait. During a routine Monday-morning planning session, the gist of which was flashed to Morgan's clients, Biggs said he was becoming a little wary about the market...
...ruddy-faced Yankee who looks as if he stepped out of a John Cheever story, Biggs has a bachelor's degree from Yale and an M.B.A. from New York University. The market watcher keeps in shape for the intense Wall Street action by pumping a bicycle at the Morgan Stanley gym for up to 45 minutes at a time. He believes that an investment manager's most important product is his judgment, and he hones his by reading voraciously, and not just technical journals. Two recent and related devourings: Peter the Great by Robert Massie...
Unlike previous Churchill biographies, notably last year's brisk Young Man in a Hurry by Ted Morgan, The Last Lion is especially rich in historical and social contexts. There are no loud revisionist notes in Manchester's harmonious reorchestration of his subject's first 58 years. He is the familiar Winnie who loved soldiering, political argument, the best wines and good English. He was a frequently absent though apparently constant husband to Clementine Hozier, whom he wed in 1908. The sexual adventurers in the family were his father and, especially, his mother, American-born