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In the construction of bridge piers and deep-water docks, it is necessary to provide the workers a water-free environment to excavate the foundations. In shallow water and on dry land, coffer ...
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Seventeenth-century masons built Amsterdam on a foundation of wooden poles planted in soggy, sandy ground, leaving behind a beautiful architectural museum _ but one with walls prone to sinking or c...
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Less pomp, more circumstance. Gerald R. Ford's state funeral is missing some of the grandeur of the one for Ronald Reagan two years ago, a reflection of the 38th president's modest ways and lesser ...
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Less pomp, more circumstance. Gerald R. Ford's state funeral is missing some of the grandeur of the one for Ronald Reagan two years ago, a reflection of the 38th president's modest ways and lesser ...
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The formal mourning of Gerald R. Ford begins with a public viewing at a church pulpit just feet from where he and his wife sat every Sunday after their White House years _ "The President's Pew."For...
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The nation's six days of formal mourning of Gerald R. Ford, starting Friday afternoon with a private service for his family, will include a day of silence on Wall Street, with the major stock marke...
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After Lt. Col. David Canegata III died in a January helicopter crash in Iraq, his wife, Shenneth, buried him near their home in the U.S. Virgin Islands.On Friday, she was among several hundred mour...
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Russia bid a solemn farewell Wednesday to Boris Yeltsin, its first post-Soviet leader, with a sonorous funeral under the gilded arches of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral near the Kremlin, and late...
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In a state funeral for the president who only wanted to be speaker of the House, Gerald R. Ford's casket will return to the Congress he served on his historic journey to an unelected presidency.For...
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In a state funeral for the president who only wanted to be speaker of the House, Gerald R. Ford's casket will return to the Congress he served on his historic journey to an unelected presidency.For...
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Soggy Amsterdam's test: digging a subway
