"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.
Is it true that this deal is so deficient from a verification standpoint that the Administration feels it could not obtain a two-thirds vote if it were submitted to the Senate in the form of a treaty?
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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.
It is striking that 34 senators voted earlier this week to preserve a higher level of funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative precisely the number needed to block ratification of a deficient START Treaty.
It is striking that 34 senators voted earlier this week to preserve a higher level of funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative -- precisely the number needed to block ratification of a deficient START Treaty.
On Friday, a hushed audience gathered in Austria's Parliament to watch the world premiere of an opera depicting how the Nazis methodically killed mentally or physically deficient children at a Vienna hospital during World War II.
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Federal Highway Administration database lists it as being "functionally obsolete" a category meaning that the design is outdated, such as having narrow shoulders and low clearance underneath.
The yammering classes have decided that Gore's problem is a weird, deficient personality, and Bush's is a dull, incurious brain.
This Kickstarted space roguelike is a godsend to the attention-deficient: every space jump is a scenario in itself, a new room opened in the dungeon.
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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.
The demographics have shifted, primarily due to immigration, another generation has passed through our deficient educational system, and a lot more people are dependent on government support and will vote for the party that will keep the spigot turned on.
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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.
Should this happen, President Bush may find himself in that unhappy position well known to several of his predecessors with a signed, but egregiously deficient and unratifiable treaty.
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.
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