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- <text id=90TT1803>
- <title>
- July 09, 1990: Business Notes:Investors
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 54
- Business Notes
- INVESTORS
- T. Boone Hits A Stone Wall
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- <body>
- <p> Erstwhile raider T. Boone Pickens exuded confidence last
- week as he arrived at the annual meeting of Koito
- Manufacturing, the Japanese auto-parts company with which he
- has been sparring for 16 months. Three hours later, he emerged
- red-faced and angry. "An absolute farce," fumed the 62-year-old
- Texan. Koito managers stonewalled Pickens even though he holds
- a 26% stake in the company. "Give me a chance," pleaded
- Pickens, demanding seats on Koito's board. But Koito
- shareholders voted down his demands. Company managers claim
- Pickens is only acting as a front for a Japanese greenmailer.
- "I invested in Koito for the long term," contends Pickens, who
- vowed, "I'll be back next year--same time, same place."
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- </body>
- </article>
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