Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill
Brendan Gillwrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 October 1914
CountryUnited States of America
closer needs
We're going to take a closer look at how notification needs to occur.
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The Federal Highway Administration should essentially recognize that later-year funding in the program will be subject to state legislative action, and that happens in many states,
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We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.
address position shift
We're going to address the problem. If you want to characterize that as a shift in the position of the department, that would be fair.
exactly practices
What exactly happened? How did our practices work? Could we have done more?
As of now, we've done everything we can to be prepared.
based icing predict
Based on the forecast, we do predict icing will be a problem.
communication satisfied until worried
There's a lot of communication going on and that's why we're having a face-to-face meeting. We're not worried but we won't be satisfied until we have the (funding plan) approved.
direct express mean means
Express doesn't necessarily mean faster. It just means direct -- direct to the bridge.
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If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.
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If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future
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If the state were to suspend the gas tax, it would most likely result in the state being sued by the bondholders,
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It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed.
execute hopefully knew needed offense waiting
Our offense really needed that. We've been waiting for that all season. We knew how to do it, we just had to execute and at least for one inning (Thursday), we did that. Hopefully we can keep it going.