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U.S. Eyes Pension Funds to Renew Crumbling Infrastructure
2013-03-29 22:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: President Barack Obama doubled down on a new push for infrastructure investment in a major speech Friday, highlighting roads, ports and bridges that many say have suffered from decades of insufficient upkeep. When the American Society of [Civil] Engineers put out their 2013 report card on our national infrastructure, they gave it the best overall grade in 12 years the bad news is we went from a D to a D+, President Obama said, speaking at a port in Miami. We still have all kinds of deferred...
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Staying in crumbling Big East lucrative for USF
2013-03-06 10:04:15| Trucking - Topix.net
A person familiar with the negotiations says the Big East football schools will get almost all of a $110 million pot in a deal that will allow seven departing basketball schools to keep the name Big East and start playing in their own conference next season.
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LEADERS: MTA's Bob Dolyniuk on the challenge of dealing with our crumbling infrastructure
2013-02-22 01:22:09| Trucking - Topix.net
Q. An unfortunate reality is that unless roads and bridges are completely crumbling, it has proven difficult to make infrastructure spending a priority.
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Shoring Up The Nation's Crumbling Coastlines
2013-01-25 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Hurricane Sandy pummeled the beaches of the Northeast, stripping away sand and dunes, and ploughing through seawalls. Can beaches be rebuilt to face fiercer storms and rising seas? And is there even enough sand to do it? Ira Flatow and guests discuss engineering the nation's coasts for "the new normal."
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