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...firm Bahrain chose to find its bonanza has a freewheeling history, even by Texas standards. Harken director E. Stuart Watson, a former executive for oil giant Atlantic Richfield, calls the Dallas company's deals "convoluted" and difficult even for industry veterans to grasp. Says Harken founder Phil Kendrick, still a small shareholder: "Their annual reports and press releases get me totally befuddled. There's been so much promotion, manipulation and inside dealmaking. It's been a fast-numbers game." Some former executives charge the firm with routinely inflating its assets to make its balance sheets look better. Harken's longtime...
...Because of the formidable technology of the 1990s, it is not easy for them to go into a lab and grasp up-to-date techniques utilized in cellular and molecular biology," added Bunn, who is a professor of medicine at the Medical School and director of hematology research at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Donahoe, unable to extricate herself from Feeney's grasp, could only watch as Howland punched the ball into the vacant...
Giardi seemed to have perfected the wishbone part with his timely pitches that he released when practically in the grasp...
...relief crews, forced overtime and deferred (meaning neglected) maintenance have resulted in tired workers and worn equipment -- a deadly combination. There are further dangers in industries like oil and petrochemicals, where subcontracting has become a common money- saving move. Barely trained newcomers, many of them aliens with an imperfect grasp of English, are put at the controls of dangerous machinery, with predictable results. In Texas six major explosions at chemical plants and refineries have killed 47 workers in the past five years and injured 1,000 more. Subcontract employees were believed to have been at fault in two, the blasts...