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viaduct

vahy uh duhkt

  • n  bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley

  • Instead they killed him under the viaduct.
  • When he was found dead in a bloody mud puddle under a railway viaduct three days later, an entire city shuddered and clutched its children and looked for lessons.
  • French lovers of such five-day "viaduct" weekends had better savor this one, however: in 2009 all May holidays fall on either a Friday or Monday making even "pont" construction .
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  • Mary Margaret Haugen in Seattle Post Intelligencer
    Perhaps the mayor is trying to deflect public attention from his outrageous failures as a leader, from losing a professional basketball franchise to being unable to replace the aging Viaduct, and finally being forced to flip-flop on such a simple... Alan Gottlieb http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gottlieb&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFFQnCycT_LRuelYwKQc1MkbkYw6A Earthtimes (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/seattle-homicide-stats-dont-support-nickels-gun-ban-scheme-says-saf,667272.shtml&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGXsTiviisMkSIeJbURWnO1h6BdcA Jan 2, 2009 107770 141352 viaduct Given what we know today, the state cannot support the city's proposal to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a hybrid tunnel project," said Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island, chair of the Senate Transportation Committee. "It makes...
  • Jacques Chirac in Times Online
    M Chirac said: "The Millau viaduct takes its place among our most shining works of civil engineering. It brilliantly embodies the verve of our research and technology. It is a magnificent example, in the long and great French tradition, of audacious...

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