Word: falcon
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Pickens became Koito's largest stockholder last March, when his investment firm took over the shares (estimated cost: more than $800 million) from Kitaro Watanabe, a billionaire Japanese real estate speculator. In a project code- named Falcon, after Pickens' private jet, the Texan claims his goal is "to maximize the profits and value of Koito for all the shareholders." He asserts that Japanese companies put corporate interests before those of individual shareholders, notably by reinvesting profits in the company rather than increasing dividends...
...theft. His allies and enemies in an ever shifting set of alliances include an aging femme fatale, a spunky tomboy and her ex-con grandfather, a trio of murderous Indians, a small-town newspaper editor and a crooked policeman. The plot and mood are vaguely reminiscent of The Maltese Falcon, except that, yes, there is a treasure...
Another homage to the era of The Maltese Falcon appears in Buried Caesars (Mysterious Press; 179 pages; $15.95), in which Stuart M. Kaminsky's sleuth Toby Peters is hired by General Douglas MacArthur on a matter of national security and gets a helping hand from Dashiell Hammett on a spree. The volume is one of the sprightliest in the series built around Peters but is overshadowed by A Cold Red Sunrise (Scribner's; 210 pages; $15.95), which features Kaminsky's other recurring detective, Soviet policeman Porfiry Rostnikov. That sly and assiduous investigator is dispatched to Siberia to look into...
...crowd of 3500 spectators saw the Hockey East regular-season champions go up, 4-1, early in the second period when David Emma scored the third straight Eagle goal at the 1:26 mark on Falcon goalie Paul Connell...
Color his face red. Ted Turner's, not Orson Welles'. Despite howls that he was committing artistic blasphemy, the Atlanta television and entertainment entrepreneur has applied tints to such classic films as Casablanca and The | Maltese Falcon. Still trying to squeeze fresh profits out of revered movies, Turner vowed to colorize Citizen Kane, the 1941 epic of which Welles was star, producer, director and co-writer...