In 1861 the two men were approached by an enterprising engineer, Theodore Dehone Judah, who envisaged a new transcontinental railroad; and in June a company called the Central Pacific Railroad was organized, with Hopkins, Huntington, and fellow merchants Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker as the major directors (the "Big Four").
Then it caught the attention of an enterprising engineer, Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh, who looked at ways it might be made practicable, and a small number of researchers started to pay attention.
After one meeting of the computer club, out in the parking lot, I was able to buy an expansion card for my new PC from an enterprising engineer who was starting his own company.
Its decision could decide the fate of the merger, the computer industry's biggest; of the company regarded as the wellspring of Silicon Valley, founded in 1938 in a garage in Palo Alto by a pair of enterprising young engineers, William Hewlett and David Packard; and, perhaps, of Carleton S. Fiorina, the chief executive of the company and the leading proponent of the merger.
Still, enterprising Russian engineers appear to have added a few drawbacks not present on the original.
It's not unthinkable to imagine an enterprising Facebook engineer might decide to tinker with it.
A kind of awe surrounded the event, which saw the enterprising Parisian engineer Louis Réard give the name of the Marshall Islands atoll to his controversial swimwear invention, the bikini, later that same year.
UNSTOPPABLE Denzel Washington, as a veteran train engineer, and Chris Pine, as an enterprising young conductor, do their darnedest to stop a runaway engine nicknamed the Beast as it plows toward a city with a cargo of toxic waste.
He says the secret will be not to over-engineer student life but leave enterprising students to organise some activities for themselves.
