"Most people in the nuclear industry are in the autumn of their careers, " observes Kevin Thomas, chief executive of engineering firm Babcock's support services, which will be working with Hitachi.

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It provides engineering, drilling, fracking, well site services, well logging and support services to the energy patch.

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These applications include geoscience, scientific and engineering modeling, media and entertainment and rapidly growing on-line services that support businesses as well as consumers.

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Roku will use the new capital to build further brand awareness through advertising, develop new international markets, and increase engineering and production to support sales growth of both hardware and digital media services on the platform including advertising, games, transactional and pay-per-view video as well as content packages.

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Meanwhile, Iraq needed food, technical support, appliances, automobiles and, perhaps most importantly, engineering services to build and improve its infrastructure, all of these things that the Brazilians were not only able but eager to offer.

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