Its maintenance threatened to absorb all our waking hours and Maryland law said we were liable should anyone drown, even an intruder.
Still, chronic service disruptions and management and safety lapse have plagued the system, and extended closures for maintenance threaten further disruption for riders.
As if that wasn't a big enough problem... "Proposed cuts in Department of Veterans Affairs spending on major construction and non-recurring maintenance threaten to derail efforts to update the department's aging infrastructure," reported the Washington Post in 2012.
Federal regulators, citing Alaska Airlines' problems in keeping track of maintenance work, threatened to shut the carrier's major maintenance operations.
The government has defended its new system for child maintenance, which threatens to charge thousands of single parents unless they reach an amicable agreement with their former partners over payments.
Commissions of Array composed of local notables were appointed by the crown for each county in order to make use of the power of the aristocracy in raising troops but to prevent them from maintaining private armies (livery) with which to intimidate justice (maintenance) or threaten the throne.
First, on Tuesday, we forced the government to provide support to the quarter of a million teenagers next year who are currently in receipt of the education maintenance allowance (EMA) by threatening them with legal action.
The 408-foot mast had originally been accepted because of its plans for a "fiberglass and steel enclosure," but a decision to remove the cladding due to predicted maintenance difficulties is now threatening 1 World Trade Center's eventual claim as the country's tallest.
Still, the budget announcement comes on the heels of a report by the Government Accountability Office that detailed a "broad decline in the Smithsonian's aging facilities," including water leaks, asbestos problems and other maintenance concerns that threaten collections.
Emery Worldwide Airlines, an in-house cargo carrier with 37 aircraft, had not flown since Aug. 13, when federal regulators said they had uncovered maintenance shortcomings and threatened to ground all its planes.
