You see, this dedicated family man and civil engineer had framed this complex effort as an opportunity in his mind in a way that motivated him to accomplish his goal, and not get sidetracked along the way.

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Officers have been investigating Mr al-Hilli's work as an engineer, his family connections and possible links in Iraq, where he was born.

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Finally, the construction is directly carried out by a family member aided by local labor and there is one technical assistant (typically an architect or a civil engineer) per each 10 family group.

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The Nazi angle takes Cook to Austria, where he visits the family of the late Viktor Schauberger, a forestry engineer and inventor who experimented with a machine called a Repulsine.

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Their chief engineer was William Douglass, part of the Douglass family who were legends in the lighthouse-engineering business.

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Sam Ray, a 53-year-old engineer and assistant scout master, said he planned to have a family talk to reconsider participation in Scouting.

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When Jamie Talbot's in-laws were in town recently and the family had trouble getting a taxi to take them to dinner, the software engineer pulled out his phone and summoned a town car.

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The Engineer had also transferred his personal residence into the Trust, and he and his family lived there, also rent-free.

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It's rare to find a dictatorial leader like Thomas Watson Sr. of IBM who could engineer the appointment of his son as chief executive, as he did in 1956 even though the Watson family at the time owned only a small percentage of IBM's stock.

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