Word: falcon
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...three years Northrop has been seeking a buyer for its F-20 Tigershark plane. Developed at a cost of $850 million, the jet fighter has consistently been spurned by the U.S. and foreign governments in favor of General Dynamics' larger F-16 Fighting Falcon. Adding to the Tigershark's woes, two of its three prototypes have crashed since last October...
General Dynamics last week struck back. The St. Louis-based company, which forfeited $22.5 million in defense contracts in May after disclosures that it had padded expense claims, offered a stripped-down version of the Fighting Falcon for $9.7 million apiece. General Dynamics estimated that the Air Force could save $1.4 billion over the next four years by buying a combination of 720 regular and modified F-16s. The price war was welcomed by both the Pentagon and Congress, which are seeking to contain weapons costs. A House bill calls for the winning plane to be chosen next year after...
...Falcon Crest and Knots Landing...
...Edward Hopper and become Dag Hammarskjold's assistant. She died with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1961 when their plane crashed in Africa. Blaine, a probable alcoholic and possible homosexual, died in 1949. He had lived in Marrakech with Louis Renault. Meanwhile, at The Maltese Falcon, Casper Gutman and Joel Cairo (Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre) wind up as a professional bridge team, too mistrustful to allow each other out of sight...
Madonna's current boyfriend is Actor Sean Penn (The Falcon and the Snowman), whose name she shouts out with joyful exuberance when an interviewer asks her a plonking question about favorite actors. But Penn, 24, is about to start shooting a new movie in Tennessee, and she is grinding through her tour, and they do not see each other much, though Madonna calls for half an hour every night after her show. The dreary fact is that stars sometimes lead lives of chaste exasperation...