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On Thursday, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's board authorized $15.5 million for repairs, part of the more than $1 billion that the project will eventually cost; agency officials want to clean the bridge's four main cables and also replace, for the first time, all of the 592 vertical suspender ropes that hold up the roadway.
For much of the last decade, the natural gas industry has carefully cultivated a green reputation, often with the help of environmental groups that embrace the resource as a clean-burning "bridge fuel" to a renewable energy future.
Its scrubbed-clean burned-bridge lyrics are borrowed from Taylor Swift, of course, but there are also teen-pop dynamics from the Disney-verse, attitude from R&B ("Yeah, you picture me at home just a-working that broom/Singing in the kitchen, baking cookies for you") and a couple of rhythmic ideas from hip-hop.
Mike Cooper also crossed in the closing stages after one of a number of clean breaks from Bridge, who finished with a perfect 10 goals from as many attempts.
Funded by aid from rich Gulf states, make-work schemes have sent teams of workmen to pave and clean streets, paint bridge railings and otherwise tidy the accumulated clutter of post-revolutionary neglect.
Some structures simply can't support the bulk of 1,000 lovers' dreams, so every now and then sparks fly in Seville as angle grinders sweep the bridge clean.
2007: Barack Obama is elected president with 53% of the popular vote and vows to save the U.S. banking and automotive industries, cut unemployment, expand health insurance, bring bin Laden to justice, promote clean energy, and bridge partisan and racial divides.
"Here, where the Drina flows with the whole force of its green and foaming waters from the apparently closed mass of the dark steep mountains, stands a great clean-cut stone bridge with eleven wide sweeping arches," wrote Andrić in The Bridge on the Drina.
The task of recreating any city-any community-housing, transportation, roads and bridges, clean water electricity, schools, is enormous.
