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Harken Energy


Harken Energy Corporation is an American oil and gas company, having its headquarters in Southlake, Texas. It is publicly traded, with its shares listed on the American Stock Exchange. Harken has attracted attention because of the role played in its affairs in the 1980s by George W. Bush, later the President of the United States. Bush, while a corporate officer, sold stock in Harken soon before the company announced substantial losses, a transaction that resulted in an SEC investigation of possible insider trading; see George W. Bush's business and early political career. A Harken transaction with the endowment fund of Harvard University has also been questioned; see Harken Energy Scandal.

External link

  • http://www.harkenenergy.com Company website

    Harken Energy Scandal


    In 1990, the US energy company Harken Energy entered into a business partnership with Harvard University which ultimately became the vehicle by which Harken Energy could transfer $20 million in debt to Harvard. Though made public, investors did not directly equate the transferred debt as a decrease in equity, allowing the share value of Harken stock to rise, and senior Harken managers liquidated their shares. ''See'' market liquidity. It is seemingly identical to the modus operandi of most recent US Corporate accounting scandals, though a Bush spokesperson denied any connection to Enron's practices, citing that Harken did not conceal its partnership with Harvard. George W. Bush formerly held several top positions at Harken Energy, primarily as Chairman and CEO. This company was owned by Khalid bin Mahfouz. At the time of the scandal, Bush was a consultant to Harken Energy. George Soros was a major investor in Harken when it bought Bush's ailing oil venture, Spectrum 7.

  • http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/EntityDisplay.php?Entity=HarkenEner&Start=1987 Harken energy at the Modern History Project
  • http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/021009/bush_harvard_5.html/ Reuters report
  • http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~skomarov/harvardwatch/ Harvardwatch report
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,808899,00.html GuardianUK report
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3818-2002Oct9.html Washington Post report Category:Scandals Category:1990

    Winch


    A winch is a machine that is used to wind up a rope. In its simplest form it consists of a spool and attached crank. More elaborate designs may have gear assemblies or electric drives. Besides industrial applications (e.g. in cranes), winches are used for towing cars, boats, or gliders. There are several winches on almost every boat or ship where they are used to pull anchor or mooring lines, halyards, and sheets. The rope or cable is usually stored on the winch, but a similar machine that does not store the rope is called a capstan.
    Category:Mechanical engineering Category:Sail de:Seilwinde

    Largo Winch


    Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series, by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme. The principal character is ''Largo Winch'' whose his original name is ''Largo Winczlav''. Other important characters include ''Nerio Winch'' his adoptive father, ''John D. Sullivan'', ''Dwight E. Cochrane'' and ''Simon Ovronaz''. In the first two volumes of the series, ''L'héritier'' and ''Le Groupe W'', Largo, a young and handsome orphan, is propelled at the head of a business empire, ''Le groupe W'', after his adoptive father Nerio commits a forced suicide, and goes through a lot of troubles to preserve his heritage and avenge Nerio. The following albums are more or less based on the same basic plot : Someone is trying to harm Largo's company or to expel him from direction, and he has to fight that someone to ensure the survival of his holding. All the stories of the series are published in two volumes, the first one being the one putting Largo in an impossible situation, and the second one letting him get out of it. Besides, both volumes share the same background color on the cover.

    Albums of the series

    # L'Héritier # Le Groupe W # O.P.A. # Business Blues # H # Dutch Connection # La Forteresse De Makiling # L'heure Du Tigre # Voir Venise... # ...Et mourir # Golden Gate # Shadow # Le Prix De L'argent Category:Comic book titles fr:Largo Winch nl:Largo Winch

    Peter Winch


    Peter Guy Winch (1926-1997) was a British philosopher known for his contributions to the philosophy of the social sciences, Wittgenstein scholarship, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Winch is perhaps most famous for his early book, ''The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy'' (1958), an attack on positivism in the social sciences, drawing on the work of R. G. Collingwood and Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Winch describes his aims in the opening paragraphs of the first chapter: : That the social sciences are in their infancy has come to be a platitude amongst writers of textbooks on the subject. They will argue that this is because the social sciences have been slow to emulate the natural sciences and emancipate themselves from the dead hand of philosophy; that there was a time when there was no clear distinction between philosohy and natural science; but that owing to the transformation of affairs round about the seventeenth century natural science has made great bounds ever since. But, we are told, this revolution has not yet taken place in the social sciences, or at least it is only now in process of taking place. Perhaps social science has not yet found its Newton but the conditions are being created in which such a genius could arise. But above all, it is urged, we must follow the methods of natural science if we are to make any significant progress. : I propose, in this monograph, to attack such a conception of the relation between the social studies, philosophy, and the natural sciences. ... It will consist of a war on two fronts: first, a criticism of some prevalent contemporary ideas about the nature of philosophy: second, a criticism of some prevalent contemporary ideas about the nature of the social studies. The main tactics will be a pincer movement: the same point will be reached by arguing from opposite directions. To complete the military analogy before it gets out of hand, my main war aim will be to demonstrate

    Featured Picture Candidates/Gliding Winch Launch


    Gliding Winch Launch
    being launched at Lasham Airfield in UK]] Well maybe I'm biased because I know how exhilarating a winch launch can be, but this photo captures a lot of what gliding is about. A sleek fibreglass glider, being launched into an open sky, the pilot's face profiled though a clear canopy, and the wings flexing under a G and a half of acceleration — all this nicely composed within the frame. It could be beaten by an aerial shot of a tight group of gliders in a thermal, but those are ''really'' hard to obtain. Photograph by whiteplanes.com, and illustrating gliding. - Solipsist 21:46, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Nominate and support. - Solipsist 21:46, 6 May 2005 (UTC) :Comment: Photo is by someone else, he is simply friends with the sites owner and got permission.
  • Support. Nice picture, illustrates the article well (I would have had difficulty picturing winch-launching, and I wouldn't have pictured that much acceleration), beautiful colors. Resolution not quite high enough to tell whether the pilot has a mustache, but I don't mind. --Andrew 02:03, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. You might see the moustache better if he was flying towards the camera. ;) Mgm|(talk) 20:53, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. That'd probably be bad news for the photographer. ^_^ Sango123 00:22, May 8, 2005 (UTC) ::Yes, in general the glider can't launch if anyone is in front of it. Every now and again the winch cable breaks and you would have half a mile of wire wipping towards you at ~60 mph. It would probably hurt if that hit you... -- Solipsist 10:09, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Support, would be nice if the image was moved to commons (commons accepts that kind of copright, right?). BrokenSegue 02:14, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. - Ian 09:27, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Support Great photo --Fir0002 00:47, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
  • Support.


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