However, I did so knowing that the people most often frustrated by the pace of things in this building are the career civilian professionals who strive every day to overcome the obstacles to getting things done.

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These civilian contacts were seen as confidence-building measures which might in time lead to similar measures at a military level.

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After the Manhattan Project's triumph in 1945 an equivalent civilian economy project during the postwar years was building nuclear plants.

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Russia has identified India as a new market for its civilian nuclear technology, with Russian engineers already building two reactors in India.

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The Washington Post spent four months investigating conditions at the facility, and this week, Cody, the Army's Vice Chief of Staff, went to see Building 18 himself, along with the Army's civilian chief.

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The Veterans Jobs Corps is designed to put veterans to work building infrastructure such as roads and bridges, similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s.

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U.S. officials say Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization are the prime suspects in last week's attacks that may have killed more than 5, 000 people -- including a Pentagon civilian worker who died Tuesday of injuries suffered when a hijacked jetliner crashed into the building.

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Audin and his officers walked out from behind this building while his soldiers, wearing pressed uniforms rather than the normal mix of camouflage and civilian attire, assembled in two ranks.

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