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In this scenario, both Japan and South Korea would have to find some means to bridge a Sino-centric Asia and a US-centered Pacific.
The “fair deal” would include encouraging international “coalitions of the engaged” aimed at intensifying exchange of information, enlarging our knowledge about emerging talent gaps, and finding solutions to bridge these gaps.
France's Threat to European UnityAt the end of the EU summit in Brussels on Monday--a meeting held to bridge the growing schism over the Union's policy on Iraq--French President Jacques Chirac committed a diplomatic blunder that rivaled US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's snide remarks about "old and new Europe."
Resistance was encountered ten miles south of Baghdad, and some troops crossed to the west bank of the river by a pontoon bridge, with the aim of making a flank attack on Baghdad.
If gas is substituted for coal, it can be a useful bridge to a low-carbon future.
This is especially true in the field of bridge building, where over the past 150 years dramatic failures have occurred at surprisingly regular intervals.
In 1879, the longest bridge in the world spanned the River Tay at Dundee, Scotland.
The bridge was of a relatively new type, known as a cantilever, which had become quite fashionable.
Although it was only slightly longer than the highly successful cantilever bridge over the Forth River near Edinburgh, Scotland, the Quebec Bridge was so inadequately designed that it collapsed before it was completed.
In 1940, the third longest suspension bridge in the world was opened in Washington State.
Within four months of its opening, the bridge was destroyed by winds in a manner totally unanticipated by its engineers.
The thirty-year interval between historic bridge failures was first highlighted by the work of Paul Sibly, who wrote a thesis on the subject, and his University of London advisor, A. C. Walker.
Although each of the notable failures involved a different type of bridge, in no case was the structure radically new.
When the failures described above occurred, engineers were sensitized to their own limitations and so approached subsequent designs - no matter of what kind of bridge - with renewed respect for the laws and forces of nature.
A historical perspective on bridge building or any other engineering specialty provides a caveat about how our humanity affects our thinking.
Building a new bridge following a familiar model can lead to complacency.
Building a novel bridge, especially in the wake of a spectacular failure, forces engineers to think from scratch and also to think more deeply and critically.
The cable-stayed bridge is a form that is currently being pushed to limits and beyond those originally imagined to apply to it.
Whether there will be a major cable-stayed bridge failure soon - or around the year 2030 - will most likely depend not so much on computer analyses as on how well engineers know their history and are determined not to repeat it.
Such large trade agreements have become particularly important as a means to bridge the two competing economic and ideological models that increasingly divide the world: China and Russia’s authoritarian state capitalism and Western-style democracy and rule of law.
Here is where Poland can help bridge the Atlantic divide and forge a European consensus.
To overcome the dangerous fissures that are tearing its society apart, the US must find a president who can bridge the cultural divide.
If confidence in Italy or Spain deteriorates again, the eurozone may have to resort to the traditional bridge between weak credibility and low-cost financing: a temporary International Monetary Fund-style monitored reform program.
But that is water under the bridge.
But this was a bridge too far even for many BJP sympathizers.
We will listen carefully, we will bridge misunderstandings, and we will seek common ground.
A Marshall Plan for the United StatesNEW YORK – When a major highway bridge in California collapsed last month, the impact on the entire southwestern United States once again highlighted the country’s serious infrastructure problem.
During the Cold War, General Charles de Gaulle wanted France to serve as a bridge between the West and the East.
Today, Macron wants France to serve as a bridge within the West: between the US and Europe.
But Tibet can still become a political bridge between China and India.
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