U.S. Army engineers purposely weakened a major bridge so that pedestrians could cross but not vehicles, and the car bombings stopped.
When a major bridge that connects Kentucky and Indiana was recently closed for safety reasons, one small business owner whose shop is nearby watched his sales fall 40 percent in just two weeks.
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As David Stokes has documented in an excellent article posted over the weekend at Townhall.com , the perpetrators have run the gamut from those implicated in plots to assassinate a sitting president of the United States, to casing the structural supports for a major bridge to trying to smuggle a butcher's knife aboard an airplane.
Roma (Gypsies) have blocked a major road bridge near Bordeaux in protest after hundreds of them were evicted from an illegal campsite.
Despite hundreds of drivers being caught in traffic jams across the capital on the way to work, the traffic on the Forth Road Bridge was flowing without major delays, according to the bridge operators and police.
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Public officials have focused in recent years on the desperate need for money to repair thousands of bridges deemed structurally deficient, which typically means a major portion of the bridge is in poor condition or worse.
It is the major 3 mile long bridge connecting the west side of the Hudson River and Rockland County New York with the east side in Westchester County, 20 miles upriver from the George Washington Bridge.
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Centuries ago, Fingle Bridge was a major crossing point over the Teign between Drewsteignton and Moretonhampstead.
When all the pieces are put together, however, the Tate Modern and the Millennium Bridge will make major contributions to the revitalisation of the Thames as a cultural centre and tourist attraction.
There have been seven managers at Chelsea in the six years since Mourinho left, having won every major domestic honor at Stamford Bridge but repeatedly falling short of giving Abramovich a Champions League trophy.
The British security forces had no desire to see the reopening of the Aghalane Bridge, a major link between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, according to newly-released documents from the Public Record Office in Belfast.
The body was found not far from the bridge and near a major road that runs alongside the sea of Marmara.
In 1908 there was a major refurbishment and widening of the bridge but Worcestershire County Council said the structure had since deteriorated.
Football fans are among road users in the Highlands being encouraged to car share during major road works on the Kessock Bridge at Inverness.
Tower Bridge - an historic landmark and major Thames crossing, is thought to have been affected by computer problems when it was raised at 1340 BST.
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To prevent a catastrophic deflation as speculators turned in their pesos, Cavallo arranged for stopgap loans from the IMF (Argentina was tossed into a temporary recession because the IMF demanded major tax boosts as a condition for the bridge-loan financing).
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Yes I think there was, I can't say that there was a huge stride forward but there, there was movement forward on policing, I think that we have bridge the gap but there are still major areas but remember we're bringing in a transformation, the police service in Northern Ireland, that is more radical than anything anywhere in Europe or the United States.
Major travel disruption is expected during road works on the Kessock Bridge.
Earlier this month, work on the Stadium Road slip road caused major disruption for travellers headed for Inverness from the other side of the Kessock Bridge.
Road works at Inverness have caused major disruption for travellers headed for the city from the other side of the Kessock Bridge.
But the bridge that collapsed Thursday is not in that deficient category, highlighting another major problem with the nation's infrastructure: Although it's rare, some bridges deemed to be fine structurally can still be crippled if they are struck hard enough in the wrong spot.
In 2006, The Bridge Direct had committed to deliver 100, 000 Care Bears dolls to a major retailer ahead of Easter.
There is compelling coverage of the year's major news events: Iran, the war in Iraq, the Minneapolis bridge collapse and the massive southern California wildfires.
"I believe we've got to find the right combination of incentives and initiatives to bridge this divide, " Clinton said Tuesday in a speech at COMDEX, a major trade show for computer and electronics products in Chicago.
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