George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
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We don't intend to let SPA stop our progress or to just sit on the land until they eventually come up with a plan of their own. We will seek legal proof that they even have an economically viable plan for developing this property.
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We worked very hard to build and sustain our relationship with the league and would have liked to continue. However, given the prolonged work stoppage and the league's TV ratings history, no financial model even remotely supports the contract terms offered. We wish the NHL all the best.
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We worked hard, we put our best foot forward, and we'll move on.
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We worked hard to create opportunities, then when we had opportunities, we quit working. The result is not a shock as much as the performance is a shock.
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We want to let people know we're back out there.
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We'll see how he goes - he'll be in the squad,
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We didn't steal the secret that told us what the plot was, we didn't recruit the right people or technically collect the data, notwithstanding enormous effort to do so,
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Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions
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Writing was the way I felt most complete. It really has always fulfilled a need for creative balance in my life.
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Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.
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Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.
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China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.
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Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
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The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.