"A structurally deficient condition is a bridge that would have a rating of 4 either in the deck, the superstructure or the substructure, " he said.
"The engineering design of the building was deficient in a number of respects, " it found.
Minnesota Department of Transportation bridge engineer Dan Dorgan said the term "structurally deficient" is a Federal Highway Administration rating.
Chronic problems include a shortage of skilled labor and a deficient infrastructure.
The point of all this muck is not that trains are inherently a deficient way to move people between (or in) metropolitan areas.
It has become an expert at ferreting out hard-to-reach patients with obscure and potentially fatal genetic diseases--namely lysosomal storage disorders, a group of 40 genetic diseases marked by a deficient enzyme.
The bridge was not classified as structurally deficient, but a Federal Highway Administration database lists it as being "functionally obsolete" a category meaning that the design is outdated, such as having narrow shoulders and low clearance underneath.
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About 25 percent of all 603, 245 U.S. public road bridges are classified as deficient, according to a report announced this month by the Federal Highway Administration.
Elated by even a sad, empty outpost of civilization, I stopped at the creepy little market with unstocked shelves and a dentally deficient man at the register.
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Several different biochemical mechanisms believed to be involved in the disease are under investigation, but one that has already yielded results is the observation that the brains of Alzheimer's patients are deficient in acetylcholine, a chemical that nerve cells use to exchange messages.
As a result, the likelihood is that a defense bill deficient in important respects will emerge from conference committee.
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Tory spokesman Earl Howe also worried the bill might be deficient but said there was a "duty" to support its aims.
In Bolivia, three big cities, La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, all devised schemes to improve chronically deficient water supplies (in a country with above-average rainfall).
It had been rated "functionally deficient, " according to a federal database, but it was not clear Friday if the bridge's condition played any role in the collapse.
Public officials have focused in recent years on the desperate need for money to repair thousands of bridges deemed structurally deficient, which typically means a major portion of the bridge is in poor condition or worse.
If he gets it wrong he may be forced to share a confined space for an indefinite period with someone deficient in wit, aptitude and hygiene, with nothing but a flimsy partition for protection.
The "open classroom" experiments of the 1960s and 1970s created a generation of students deficient in basic skills.
Arizona and Rhode Island have a similar number of structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges -- 384 and 405 respectively.
The squeaky-clean 24-year-old follows the recipe to the letter, and the result is a tune which is woefully deficient of any originality or sparky verve.
But it also puts a burden on many industries (by making exports dear) and, if demand in the economy is already deficient, an appreciating currency can make a slow-moving economy stall altogether.
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The decision comes 21 years after a suit was filed on behalf of an inmate alleging that treatment provided to mentally ill inmates was so poor as to violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments, a claim consolidated with a later case alleging similarly deficient care of inmates with physical ailments.
"As the complaint alleges, yet another major bank has engaged in a longstanding and reckless trifecta of deficient training, deficient underwriting and deficient disclosure, all while relying on the convenient backstop of government insurance, " said Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara.
Valentine's unpredictable brain and mouth bring some zip to a rivalry that had become character-deficient and rote.
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"The changes announced by the Morgan Stanley Board are deficient as they fail to allow shareholders to call a special meeting, " the group of eight said in a statement Sunday night.
When people began relying heavily on a diet of bread at such a northern latitude, they probably became chronically deficient in vitamin D, for bread is generally low in vitamin D.
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Since then, there have been questions about the country's underfunded air traffic control systems, deficient radar system and the airlines' ability to cope with a surge in travelers.
The poor and unemployed get care from a second, subsidised system with fewer benefits and generally deficient service.
Officials concluded the track was not deficient but that the athlete "did not compensate properly" going into a bend.
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