At Skoda Pilsen (unrelated to Skoda Volkswagen), the Czech Republic's biggest engineering firm, engineers have on several occasions lost the chance to take the lead in big overseas contracts because all decisions have to be referred back to the company's boss, Lubomir Soudek.Bad habitsOver-centralised decision-making is often coupled with indulgent, time-wasting habits.
One can only marvel at the extent to which the know-how of incumbent firm engineers has been shaped by almost a century of combustion-engine development.
In Accra, an aide to President John Mahama denied that the president's brother Ibrahim Mahama – a multi-millionaire and the founder of the country's leading mining contracting firm Engineers and Planners – was part of the visit.
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In 2007, a consortium of international private-equity firms engineered the largest leveraged buyout in history.
But the firms' engineers feared the electric fields surrounding the adjacent cables might interfere with one another.
By John Bringardner May 2, 2014 In 2007, a consortium of international private-equity firms engineered the largest leveraged buyout in history.
Photograph: Allison V. Smith/Redux In 2007, a consortium of international private-equity firms engineered the largest leveraged buyout in history.
Indeed, newly available records show that big donors to the Democratic and Republican Parties — along with law firms, engineers and others who do business with the state — are sidestepping the state's contribution limits and pay-to-play rules by giving to the parties' governors' associations, which turn around and spend heavily in New Jersey.
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