Word: morgans
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...pain when two hedge funds it managed nearly imploded in June--as the subject of the industry's most feverish when-will-he-go talk. Citi was far from alone in its troubles. BofA (profits down 32%) and Wachovia (down 10%) had bad quarters too, as did investment banks Morgan Stanley (down 7%) and Merrill Lynch (which recorded a loss...
...that he had picked up an oar for the first time just a season earlier. “Within a year, he was able to give all the guys who had been rowing for four or five years a good run for their money,” senior Breffny Morgan said. “He established himself in the team very quickly.”Unfortunately, Wintner suffered another injury—this time a fractured rib, a common rowing injury—shortly after the varsity lineups were released. The injured rib kept...
...Early on, Steichen recognized the value of networking. He started his Great Men series in the early 1900s and continued doing portraits of the likes of J. Pierpont Morgan, Richard Strauss, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill for much of his life. It didn't hurt his reputation that his brother-in-law, the well-known poet Carl Sandburg, published a biography, Steichen the Photographer, in 1929. In later years, Steichen's portraits tended toward show-business types like Gloria Swanson, mysterious behind a layer of lace, and W.C. Fields, hamming it up in his pajamas in one of the exhibition...
Many motivational books exhort readers to "sell yourself" to bosses and colleagues. This one counsels you to do so with self-awareness, finding a style that suits your strengths and weaknesses. The authors describe five models for would-be persuaders: driver (Intel ceo Andy Grove), commander (J.P.Morgan), promoter (Andrew Carnegie), chess player (John D. Rockefeller) and advocate (Sam Walton...
...steady cash flow of decades' worth of tolls. There are 71 projects worth $104 billion being considered for private development by state and local governments, according to the publication Public Works Financing. The proposals are feeding a new pack of investment funds from the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and the Carlyle Group--as well as controversy over how roads should be paid...