GM's Korean unit handles small-car engineering, for instance.

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Two years ago, Sheffield University, which has added biotechnology to its traditional strength in engineering, set up a unit to try to turn some of its research discoveries into commercial ideas.

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Access Engineering Supplies has expanded and moved to a bigger unit on the Heathcote industrial estate in Warwick.

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The unit's expertise would include communications, logistics, medicine and engineering.

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But a recently published survey of the various conflicting engineering studies comes up with a plausible compromise estimate: Every unit of energy that goes into making ethanol from corn produces ethanol that yields 1.27 units of energy.

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Eircom formed a wholly owned subsidiary called Service Enterprise Holdings, which took a 35% equity stake in one partner, Telecom Engineering Services, and a 30% equity stake in a new unit of Modern Networks, the other.

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The old Loral acquired Ford's satellite unit in 1990, and Globalstar emerged in its present form through an alliance that Schwartz struck with a few engineering firms and, most importantly, several large wireless providers.

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