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ConEd officials Tuesday showed a 5-foot tall concrete wall now standing in front of a structure that housed signal equipment, which was flooded during the storm.
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Back when he was just a contractor in Saudi Arabia, he is said to have impressed impatient royal clients by wheeling in giant jet engines to blow-dry a concrete wall.
ECONOMIST: For now, at least
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But GFP is a concrete wall of a molecule--it curves around itself such that there is no place for an enzyme to bind.
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Behind the complex veil is a surprisingly simple reinforced-concrete box with a standard window wall and a conventional plan.
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After rescuers cut a window-size opening in the concrete wall, Chatman climbed in to help apply the soapy substance.
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The rest of it - the five watchtowers, concrete perimeter wall, 57 concrete 'kiosks' (which stored the nuclear warheads) and other testing and maintenance buildings - have deteriorated and the 'scheduled monument' has now been put on the at-risk register by English Heritage.
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They have speeded the construction of a vast concrete wall along Israel's 240-km (150-mile) border with Egypt and deployed another brigade to patrol it.
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To combat the surge in storms and waves, the government has built what locals call the Great Wall of Male: a concrete barrier 1.8-metre (6 ft) high that partly rings the capital.
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The trick, if you can call it that, lies in the prefabrication of steel-and-concrete blocks that can be hoisted into position, just as bricks form a wall.
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The Dragons had a fright early on when wing Justin Murphy smashed over the perimeter wall and landed awkwardly on some concrete steps after running into the in-goal area to chase a kick through.
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The barbed-wire and barricades that surround coalition facilities were eschewed, in favour of a plain concrete wall.
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