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The tension, however, between her and Van Heflin is pretty good; he's an up and coming engineer and certainly not going to commit himself to her, a clinging neurotic who's a nurse for the suicidal wife of Heflin's employer played by Raymond Massey.
If one is new to Keaton, knowing only that he was a deadpan comedian who performed hilarious yet often dangerous stunts then this will be something of (in the words Oscar Hammerstein put into the mouth of the King Of Siam) a puzzlement; it boasts a more or less straightforward narrative in which engineer Keaton's train is stolen by Union troops during The War Between The States and he sets off in pursuit.
The specific points of such a parallel biography need not be driven into the ground here -- suffice it to say that one can imagine a young Francis telling his younger, equally visionary associate and design nut George Lucas (executive producing here) to grow a beard -- just as Jeff Bridges, in a career-highlight performance, tells his engineer played by Elias Koteas.
The engineer Richard Thornton (Timothy Busfield), his wife Laura (Jennifer Dale) and his son Michael (Dan Petronijevic) come to live and test a house designed by him and fully controlled by the computer Helen.
Greece, by contrast, has utterly failed to engineer a recovery.
The chemist Dalton first gave a proof of the existence of atoms and the engineer Sadi Carnot first gave a proof of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
We know that terrorist groups have the capacity to engineer nuclear devices and would explode them anywhere they could; we simply cannot be confident that we can forever deny them access to the fissile material they need to fuel them.
Putin’s preferred outcome in Ukraine is to engineer a financial and political collapse that destabilizes the country, and for which he can disclaim responsibility, rather than a military victory that leaves him in possession of – and responsible for – part of Ukraine.
But right now, in the Silicon Valley that almost every country envies, TechCrunch reports that Google just paid an engineer $3.5 million in restricted stock to keep him from defecting to Facebook.
Can’t we engineer our way out of our plastic problem?
Yet the need for something drastically different and higher than the framed daily routine of an engineer and a citizen of the socialist paradise did not diminish.
With productivity having deteriorated considerably – a symptom that had been obscured by the bubbles – Japan was unable to engineer a meaningful recovery.
In fact, designing in a climate of success can be dangerous for an engineer.
When the German engineer Karl Benz invented the first petroleum-powered automobile, he did not just create an engine with wheels; he set in motion an industry that revolutionized the way society was structured.
Far from the aggressive bully of twentieth-century war propaganda, the perfectionist engineer of Madison Avenue car advertisements, or the rule-following know-it-all of the silver screen, the German many picture today is a sleepy-headed character clad in nightgown and cap.
For example, an automotive engineer might not buy automotive stocks – and might even short them – as a way to hedge the risk to his or her own particular type of human capital.
If Rouhani proves unwilling or unable to engineer a change of course, what else might be done?
Both Singh and Devnani are educated people: Singh has a degree in chemistry, and Devnani is a trained engineer.
As Wen’s successor, Li Keqiang, attempts to engineer deep systemic reforms, understanding Wen’s policy decisions could not be more relevant.
Obama has just been elected for four years, and his political fate depends on whether he can engineer an economic recovery.
Robert Peurifoy, a former senior weapons engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, disagrees.
Will the United States engineer a path to renewed growth?
Beyond these examples, efforts to engineer health-care solutions in refugee communities have been limited.
A university-educated Syrian civil engineer arriving in Munich will need to learn some German; but, once this is done, he or she is unlikely to have to wait too long before employers come knocking.
These countries must now engineer substantial real wage and price deflation in order to regain competitiveness and reduce their trade deficits.
Instead, the task of corrupting a centuries-old humanistic tradition has fallen to the Chinese Communist Party’s ignoble censor-in-chief and engineer of China’s literary exodus – and to the greed of some for Chinese gold.
They should be working actively to engineer a just and smart shift to a future free of fossil fuels, not making that future harder and more expensive to achieve.
I was recently on a panel with three economists and a senior business-sector engineer.
After the economists spoke about carbon prices, internalizing externalities, feed-in tariffs, carbon offsets, and the like, the engineer spoke succinctly and wisely.
Carter was a somewhat bland engineer, whereas Obama is a charismatic lawyer.
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