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ENGINEERING: Chemical Engineer

Pharmaceutical companies will spend $ 12.9 billion in 1998 seeking the next wonder drug -- almost twice what they spent in 1990. Overall, private research-anddevelopment budgets ( I ) $ 99.3 billion last year, up 21.7 percent in five years. Much of that investment pays chemical engineers, who put the right shade of rose in lipstick, the mouthwatering taste in fat-free cheese, the air-synthetic rubber - in Air Jordans. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (…lI…) that demand in R&D by 5 percent a year until 2005. At Pfizer Inc., chemical engineers make up to 20 percent of the manufacturing work force in the country.

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