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It still stands as a monument to the engineering skills of the last century and still serves in the gasoline age to carry heavy traffic on U.S. Route 250 -- the old Beverly and Fairmont Turnpike.
This reflects the very heavy engineering content of the products -- which are not military.
and heavy engineering at $9,841,000, down 45 per cent.
Military engineering can employ a wide variety of heavy equipment in the same or similar ways to how this equipment is used outside the military.
It should be noted that while the term " armoured engineer vehicle " is used specifically to describe these multi-purpose tank based engineering vehicles, that term is also used more generically in British and Commonwealth militaries to describe all heavy tank based engineering vehicles used in the support of mechanized forces.
The main sectors of Hungarian industry are heavy industry ( mining, metallurgy, machine and steel production ), energy production, mechanical engineering, chemicals, food industry and automobile production.
The shipyards and heavy engineering factories in Glasgow and Clydeside played a key part in the war effort, and suffered attacks from the Luftwaffe, enduring great destruction and loss of life.
The rebels lacked the engineering expertise or heavy equipment necessary to assault the network of royal castles that cut off the northern rebel barons from those in the south.
As a discipline, project management developed from several fields of application including civil construction, engineering, and heavy defense activity.
Many other fields in the production engineering and design engineering and heavy industrial have project managers.
The main sectors of Hungarian industry are heavy industry ( mining, metallurgy, machine and steel production ), energy production, mechanical engineering, chemicals, food industry and automobile production.
Located on the banks of the River Clyde, during the Industrial Revolution, the city had one of the greatest production centres of heavy engineering and shipbuilding in the world.
Despite its promising appearance and engineering novelty the Pipit did not fly as well as expected, the elevator being criticised as heavy while the rudder was weak and the type was longitudinally unstable.
The group expanded strongly, both by internal growth and by acquisitions, buying heavy engineering and primary industry firms in the 1940s and 1950s and then spinning off subsidiaries in the 1970s and beyond.
The take-over of Fraser and Chalmers in 1918 took GEC into heavy engineering and consolidated their claim to supply ' Everything Electrical '.
Despite the demand for electrical consumer goods and large investments in heavy engineering and nuclear power, profits began to fall for the first time in the face of increasing competition and internal disorganisation.
In 1790, there were plans for a link from Bury St Edmunds to the River Orwell at Mistley, which John Rennie surveyed, but it involved heavy engineering work, including a tunnel, and the estimated cost of £ 75, 000 could not be raised.
Heavy industry accounted for 33 % of the production was presented by the enterprises of heavy engineering, electrical engineering there are factories, foundry and engineering, car repair, repair bearing, building materials, woodworking, concrete structures and structural elements, house-building.
The Packer empire includes magazines and television networks, telecommunications, petrochemicals, heavy engineering, a 75 % stake in the Perisher Blue ski resort, diamond exploration, coalmines and property, a share in the Foxtel cable TV network, and investments in the lucrative casino business in Australia and overseas.
In the 1890s and 1900s heavy engineering industries began to set up in the town, and Rugby rapidly grew into a major industrial centre.

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The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.
He pulled with all his strength at the heavy, brass-bound door, and shuffled along the wainscoted wall.
Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.
Then he looked at his finger, at the wrinkled, heavy knuckle and the thick nail he used like a knife to pry up, slit, and open.
This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.
it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.
heavy foil on hand at all times.
Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.
Orlick shakes his hand at Pip, bangs the table with his fist, draws his unclenched hand `` across his mouth as if his mouth watered '' for his victim, lets his hands hang `` loose and heavy at his sides '', and Pip observes him so intensely that he knows `` of the slightest action of his fingers ''.
All of the elements of the experience were impossible and yet the reality of them was heavy upon him and he resolved never again to visit the temple at Fudomae.
He came up and was going to push at it with his heavy shoes.
These frogs are typically fossorial species that emerge after heavy rains and congregate at a breeding site.
Rutherford interpreted the gold foil experiment as suggesting that the positive charge of a heavy gold atom and most of its mass was concentrated in a nucleus at the center of the atom — the Rutherford model.
Ski troops were trained for the war, and battles were waged in mountainous areas such as the battle at Riva Ridge in Italy, where the American 10th Mountain Division encountered heavy resistance in February 1945.
After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.
Adelaide had also become economically self-sufficient during this period, but at heavy cost: as a result of Gawler's public works the colony was heavily in debt and relied on bail-outs from London to stay afloat.
Grey slashed public expenditure against heavy opposition, although its impact was negligible at this point: silver was discovered in Glen Osmond that year, agriculture was well underway, and other mines sprung up all over the state, aiding Adelaide's commercial development.
The PowerPC CPU on PowerUP boards is usually used as a coprocessor for heavy computations ( a powerful CPU is needed to run MAME for example, but even decoding JPEG pictures and MP3 audio was considered heavy computation at the time ).
Weaponry varies by a very wide degree between AFVs-lighter vehicles for infantry carrying, reconnaissance or specialist roles may have only a machine gun for self-defence ( or no armament at all ), whereas heavy self propelled artillery will carry large guns, mortars or rocket launchers.

heavy and down
They are laid a minimum of 24'' '' deep and in some areas four feet down, particularly under roads, to stay clear of all other piping such as water and sewers and to minimize shocks from heavy trucking.
Together we waited in her car until the hearse moved out and we followed it down into the heavy traffic of New Jersey.
Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.
Lowering a concentrated, heavy weight down the anchor line – rope or chain – directly in front of the bow to the seabed, behaves like a heavy chain rode and lowers the angle of pull on the anchor.
Such repair work, a reduction in height, and unusually high snowmelt and heavy spring rains combined to cause the dam to give way on May 31, 1889 resulting in twenty million tons of water to sweep down the valley causing the Johnstown Flood.
Air shows, and other big shows such as agricultural shows, on grassy land, are vulnerable to continued heavy rain waterlogging the ground, and making the cloudbase too low for flying, forcing cancellation, or the show ending early, costing much money for the show's organizers, as people and parking cars have difficulty moving about and turn the land into a morass, and the organizers may be tempted to put straw or cinders down to make movement easier, and the owner of the land cannot accept the resulting damage.
Conquérant was defeated more rapidly, after heavy broadsides from passing British ships and the close attentions of Audacious and Goliath brought down all three masts before 19: 00.
The rebellion was put down by Louis Botha and Jan Smuts, and the ringleaders received heavy fines and terms of imprisonment.
The lake is drawn down as winter approaches, to minimize ice damage and to maximize its capacity to store heavy spring runoff.
On the other hand, the client / server model works with any size or physical layout of LAN and doesn't tend to slow down with a heavy use.
Cannons could bring down even heavy bombers with just a few hits, but their slower rate of fire made it difficult to hit fast moving fighters in a dogfight.
Coal production was down 60 %, which had cascading negative effects on railroads, heavy industry, and heating.
After heavy rains, powerful rivers of rainwater pour down the numerous ravines ( known as Ghauts ).
Union General Ulysses S. Grant's campaigns bore down on Lee in 1864 and 1865, and despite inflicting heavy casualties, Lee was unable to force back Grant.
His leg spin yielded ten wickets at 30. 60, with a best of 4 / 118 in the Fourth Test in Adelaide when he was given a heavy workload, totalling 58 overs, when Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller broke down during the match.
The forests were dwindling after heavy logging, causing lumber mills to shut down.
On a run in heavy winds, the forces on the sails tend to drive a boat's bow down, so the crew weight is moved far aft.
* 4: 00 PM Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 684. 81 points ( 7. 13 %) in heavy trading.
Skinned and gutted fish are stuffed with salt, placed in a wooden barrel, doused with salt again, then weighed down with a heavy tsukemonoishi ( pickling stone ).
The fast-moving Zulu raiding party or " ibutho lempi " on a mission invariably traveled light, driving cattle as provisions on the hoof, and were not weighed down with heavy weapons and supply packs.
* The replacement of the Aristotelian idea that heavy bodies, by their nature, moved straight down toward their natural places ; that light bodies, by their nature, moved straight up toward their natural place ; and that ethereal bodies, by their nature, moved in unchanging circular motions with the idea that all bodies are heavy and move according to the same physical laws

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