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Aging bridges are particularly prevalent in Vermont, where a flood in 1927 swept away roughly half of the state's picturesque covered bridges. The steel spans that replaced them are past their expected life of 50 years, meaning that most are already in need of replacement. Meanwhile, loads across them are severely restricted. In the multiriver region of metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1,129 of the 5,000 or so bridges require repairs that would cost more than $1 billion. When loads over the Thompson Run Bridge in suburban Duquesne were reduced to five tons in 1978, the United States Steel...
...antique structures was dramatized 18 months ago when a badly corroded cable broke loose from the 99-year-old Brooklyn Bridge and killed a Japanese freelance photographer. The city has provided only limited funds to replace the cables, which have merely been encircled with a band of steel so that when the next one pops, it will not mangle cars or pedestrians...
...floor to the bank's data-processing center. Dropping through, they approached their principal objective: the two doors leading to the bank's 186 safe deposit boxes in the basement of the building. The first iron-barred door was easy to breach; the second, a bulky steel safe door with multiple locks, had to be burned through. Police discovered tangerine peels on the floor by the gates, left there by the burglars, who snacked as they spent hours scorching their way into the vault with acetylene torches...
...Roosa. He contends that the U.S.'s public debt cannot be compared with that of a developing nation: the U.S. has an infinitely more powerful economy and a more stable political process. Others, echoing that view, note that banks can hardly send gunboats to seize Poland's steel plants, Mexico's oilfields or Indonesia's rice mills if debt repayments are halted. Says Britain's Lever: "I call [Wriston] the Peter Pan of bankers because he still believes in fairies...
...live in an enclosed steel box and be comfortable...