Travis Phelps, spokesman for the Washington State Department of Transportation, said a flatbed truck with an oversize load hit the upper part of the steel-lattice bridge.

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Having said this, the Congress should expect to witness substantial enthusiasm on the part of the Bush Administration and other G-7 leaders to off-load this emerging financial nightmare from bilateral arrangements onto the shoulders of multilateral financial institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the BIS and even the Asian Development Bank.

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Nick Reilly, who heads GM's international operations, says that part of the answer is to adopt low-cost manufacturing techniques and not to load cheap cars with unnecessary technology.

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And Dianna Hanson quickly became part of the "family, " lightening the load and brightening the mood wherever she went, recalled the non-profit's president, Wendy Debbas.

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