Bridas sued the California oil giant for stealing its idea. (Bridas lost.) Unocal mixed it up with tyrants, too, flying a delegation of Taliban officials to its engineering headquarters in Houston, with a side trip to the NASA Space Center.

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Later that year Unocal formed a consortium to build the pipeline. (Bridas sued the California oil giant for stealing its idea but lost.) Unocal mixed it up with tyrants, too, flying a delegation of Taliban officials to its engineering headquarters in Houston, Texas, and taking them on a side trip to the NASA Space Center.

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On June 1 he takes over as chief executive of Foster Wheeler , the engineering company that recently moved its headquarters to Geneva from New Jersey.

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Though it has offices abroad and a plant in China, all of DEK's engineering is carried out at its Weymouth headquarters, where a third of its 1, 000-strong global workforce are employed.

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Dell also has mobile engineering teams near Chicago and at its Round Rock, Tex. headquarters.

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Engineering firm Dyson has accused German rival Bosch of placing a mole within its headquarters in Wiltshire.

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Most Japanese electronics firms remain highly focused on engineering and products, which are for the most part conceived in Japan by headquarters staff and sent to the regions to be distributed.

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The longtime technology investor points to startup consumer electronics company, Sling Media, as an example of a firm that has California headquarters but relies on overseas operations for a big chunk of its engineering work.

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