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
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.
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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.
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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.
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Based on the forecast, we do predict icing will be a problem.
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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.
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We're going to take a closer look at how notification needs to occur.
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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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To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.
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I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.