Such values include safety, mobility, origin-destination speed, reliability, comfort, convenience, and air quality. Since bridge maintenance tends to have only an indirect effect on these values, this aspect was not addressed in detail in the bridge CoRe Elements. However, these values could be ...
when the Second Continental Con- gress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first of which states, "The Stile of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America.'" Common short forms and ab- breviations of the United States of America include the United States, the U.S., th...