Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loss of $310 million for 1994, stemming in large part from its troubled railcar business. That was nearly twice the deficit that Morrison Knudsen acknowledged as recently as February. To make matters worse, the firm remained in technical default on $225 million in loans from Bank of America, J.P. Morgan and other lenders. "We are beginning to seriously doubt the company's viability," says analyst Tobias Levkovich, who follows the firm for Smith Barney...
...ways the typical villain, he has several faces; all of them are absolutely evil. As a former hired gun, he is a twisted version of the self-made man. His current executive position and gold-lined office parallel him to the "robber barons" of the industrial age, like Carnegie, Morgan and Rockefe
...thereby driving down its value. According to the Wall Street Journal, the big winners have included billion-dollar hedge funds headed by such famed managers as George Soros and Julian Robertson; Robertson's Tiger Management fund reportedly raked in some $150 million in 10 days of trading. Says Peter Morgan, an economist for Merrill Lynch in Tokyo: "There is a feeling that speculative forces are challenging the central banks just as they did in 1992," when Britain was forced to devalue the pound...
...Army doctor, is the only person with the expertise, the guts and, dammit, the nobility to solve this apocalyptic poser. Screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool have given him a requisition brainy-dishy ex-wife (Rene Russo), an agitated boss (Morgan Freeman), a helpful colleague (Kevin Spacey, who is very good) and plucky Major Salt to steer Sam through an unlikely airplane battle at the climax. But in movies like this, a man must stand alone. It's a mild hoot to watch Certified Great Actor Hoffman play an action hero. Note the Clint-like glint in his eyes...
...Morgan Freeman is excellent as Hoffman's supervisor torn between ethics and orders, as they try to contain the virus...