Its subsidiary, Aker Wirth, has construction projects in Iran, including a water tunnel in Ghomroud.
"We've had a challenging season trying to get reliability sorted but we've had a stronger second half, " Wirth said.
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Wirth was Benetton chief designer as the team slid from competitiveness in the late 1990s following Michael Schumacher's departure for Ferrari.
Former Benetton designer and Simtek team owner Nick Wirth is leading the team's technical division from his headquarters in Bicester, Oxfordshire.
"The loop of digital design is key to our operation, " Wirth said.
That can take the form of people calling their congressmen or any number of other informal actions, said Wirth, a former senator from Colorado.
As Al Gore's former U.S. Senate pal, Timothy Wirth, observed, representing the U.S. as Clinton-Gore administration's undersecretary of state for global affairs at the U.N.
Summit Chairman Maurice Strong agreed with Wirth and his policy priorities.
And Manor technical director Nick Wirth said he was delighted to have secured a driver with a proven F1 record having raced in 36 grands prix, scoring 51 points.
Imagine the embarrassment for Wirth and Herrenknecht, two German companies that had supplied Ghorb and one of its subsidiaries with the tunnel boring machinery necessary to construct the facility.
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Wirth has decided to design the new Virgin car without using a wind-tunnel, a tool for shaping a car's aerodynamics that has been de rigueur in F1 for 30 years.
Former Benetton chief designer and Simtek team owner Nick Wirth has been leading the team's technical division and he says the new investment will help advance the development of the car for 2011 and beyond.
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"The sudden abundance of low-cost natural gas is a gift, " said Tim Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, who, as a U.S. senator, ran the hearings that turned climate change into a national issue.
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After Senator Wirth became undersecretary of state for global affairs in the Clinton-Gore administration, he began working closely with Enron's boss, Kenneth Lay, to lobby Congress to grant the EPA the authority to control CO2.
Representative Timothy Wirth (D-Colo.), head of the House subcommittee on telecommunications, consumer protection and finance, points out that the SEC staff actually has decreased by 5% in the last five years as financial products have mushroomed.
Virgin technical director Nick Wirth is hopeful that Timo Glock will take up the year remaining on his contract and stay with the rookie team in 2011 despite rumours that Renault are interested in the German.
That evening, the Secretary-General attended a reception in honour of Sustainable Energy for All hosted by Senator Tim Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation, and a dinner hosted by the Director of International Renewable Energy Agency, Adnan Amin.
Timothy Wirth later became undersecretary of state for global affairs for the Clinton-Gore administration, U.S. representative to the 1992 UN Rio de Janeiro Climate Summit that set Kyoto Protocol carbon regulations in motion, and president of the UN Foundation.
"By signaling his intention to restore U.S. funding for UNFPA, the UN Population Fund, President Barack Obama is signaling his re-engagement with the international community on the critical challenge of improving reproductive health around the world, " UN Foundation President Timothy Wirth said.
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