Word: morgans
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...both of them went free. After that, for years the trail went cold. Mona Lisa was reported to have been shipped to Switzerland or South America. She was in an apartment in the Bronx, a private gallery in St. Petersburg or a secret room in the mansion of J.P. Morgan. In fact, she had never left Paris. The thief turned out to be Vincenzo Peruggia - the Hooblers spell it Perugia - an Italian house painter and carpenter living in France, though he was arrested for the crime - in December 1913 - in Florence. He had gone there with the painting after contacting...
...settlement with Wall Street's stock analysts. As you might recall, investment banks had a bad habit of issuing overly rosy opinions of companies, particularly the ones the banks were courting for other sorts of business. Twelve companies, including Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, J.P. Morgan Chase and UBS agreed to pay a collective $432.5 million for research to be produced by dozens of independent, outside companies and distributed to the banks' own customers, as a counterweight to their internal opinions. This money, designed to be disbursed over the course of five years, spurred...
...month high. The binge is being fueled in part by optimism that Beijing's $565 billion stimulus program will drive a turnaround in the sagging economy. "After a brief pause, China's appetite for natural resources has returned to buoyant levels," Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong, wrote in a report this month...
Zimbabweans cheered when the government of national unity was formed in February by President Robert Mugabe and his erstwhile foe Morgan Tsvangirai, who is now the country's Prime Minister. But ordinary folks say they are not happy with what has happened since. Half the population of about 13 million is facing hunger; a raging cholera epidemic has claimed more than 4,000 lives since last year; and the economy has continued to be inert, as it has been for almost a decade now. The world economic crunch has not helped the situation. "We are yet to see results...
...Kenneth I. Brewer ’11 and Lindsey R. Brinton ’12, who talked about the history of church and current theological doctrines, followed by questions from the audience. When asked about the issue of polygamy in an interview before the event, LDSSA Vice-President Morgan T. Pope ’11 pointed out that the general public sometimes held an outdated view of Mormon beliefs. “People still associate us with polygamy even though it’s been more than 100 years out of practice,” he said. Last year?...