Watson stood against the back wall of the bridge, near an old brass pilot wheel, and bit his upper lip.

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Three years ago, a retaining wall on the Bridge Valley Road, near the Portway, had to be repaired after it collapsed.

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Works will consist of fully rebuilding the collapsed bridge's retaining wing wall, as well as taking down and rebuilding two other retaining wing walls which are showing significant signs of structural distress.

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When the protesters crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they were met by a wall of Alabama State Troopers and ordered to disband.

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Padlocks have since sprouted from the Great Wall in China to the Brooklyn Bridge to the fence of a freeway overpass in Silicon Valley.

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But since crossing the Hudson to his 34th-floor brokerage office overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge, he hasn't even had time to put photos of his equestrian pursuits on the wall.

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But since crossing the Hudson to Manhattan and his 34th-floor brokerage office, which overlooks the Brooklyn Bridge, he hasn't even had time to put photos of his equestrian pursuits on the wall.

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The temptation to surge on First Avenue can come from the feeling of redemption that comes not only from the wall of sound one encounters on the avenue, but from surviving the desolation of the Queensboro Bridge.

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Just nine months earlier, Cayne was on the bridge circuit when two Bear Stearns hedge funds collapsed from significant losses on subprime mortgage securities, igniting the crisis on Wall Street.

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