For the hostage release came in a week in which he was being widely criticised at home for appearing to blow up a conflict with Colombia's judiciary in order to engineer the possibility of a third term.

ECONOMIST: Colombia

SmartPlanet sat down with Dr. Donnell Walton, senior applications engineer at Corning, in order to discuss the merits of the display technology as well as its importance in the gadget space.

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An engineer from Tehran (Behzad Dourani) arrives in a small mountain village in order to record some sort of ritual that depends on the death of an old lady.

NEWYORKER: The Wind Will Carry Us

In the nineteen-eighties, engineers from Europe began arriving in Xinjiang, in order to test their wind turbines, and in 1987 Wu, then a young engineer in charge of an early Chinese wind farm, worked alongside engineers from Denmark, a center of wind-power research.

NEWYORKER: Green Giant

B. officer who in 1981 convinces himself that he must betray his decaying country in order to save it, and Froment (Guillaume Canet), an ambitious young French engineer working in business in Moscow.

NEWYORKER: Farewell

When I toured the island with National Park Service (NPS) staff in August 2010, Jim Calvinperez, the facilities manager and chief engineer, told me that 2, 000 gallons of diesel fuel had to be shipped to the island weekly in order to keep the generators in the power plant humming.

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