Word: caperers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Great stuff for the front page back home, but when the French become furious at Truell's caper, he is jailed briefly and then thrown out of the country. Why this overreaction? And why, he wonders, were all the terrorists killed, when what they wanted was negotiation? Most puzzling, what happened to the unarmed, unworldly microbiologist who had desperately tried to tell him something just before the shootout...
...been a better practitioner of the craft than Irving Kott, a sharp operator who has played a powerful, behind-the-scenes role at brokerage firms in his native Canada, Continental Europe, Britain and the U.S. In his biggest caper, Kott's brokerage customers lost as much as $400 million. His operations have been run out of a number of countries, but now he is back in the U.S., operating right under the noses of government regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD...
...charm of Once a Thief is that nearly every moment is played with a wink--the almost nonstop score has the giddy feel of music that might accompany a Stanley Donen caper, while the clipped pace of the showdowns gives the movie the tone of a Power Rangers episode with wit. Newcomer Sergei proves himself an appealing comedian as he smugly cuts down his rivals' big plans with lines like "Keep dreamin', Serpico." The movie ends with Sergei and Holt poised for further adventures. A series maybe...
...score? Coke has increased its lead and helped itself to shares of some of Pepsi's prime territories. Internationally Coke's market share increased to 49.2% last year while Pepsi's was flat at 15.7%. In South America, Coke was expanding its 55% market share even before the Caracas Caper. In India, a market Pepsi has owned for decades, Coke bought the leading soft-drinks maker in 1994 and is now top dog. Coke sold $12.7 billion worth of products outside the U.S. last year. Pepsi's non-U.S. sales last year totaled $3.2 billion. And Sinclair...
...crowd, a Beatles in Liverpool, U2 in Dublin, Nirvana in Seattle hometown roar. With abandon, joy and a little bit of out-of-practice sloppiness, they tear through some old songs--Hannah Jane, Let Her Cry and Time--as well as a couple of the new numbers, Sad Caper and Be the One. Rucker screams his way through that last one, pulling and pawing at his shirt as if he's about to come out of it. He howls, "See it's not like they/ Are gonna take my faith away...