BRT
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Etymology
Origin of BRT
First recorded in 2000–05
Example Sentences
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“B.R.T. is cost-effective, high quality, and will do the most in the shortest amount of time to build out our transit network without depending solely on New York State,” he said.
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He had been recruited as a scab motorman during a strike by locomotive engineers protesting the B.R.T.’s failure to follow the War Labor Board’s order to rehire 29 employees fired for their union activities.
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Mayor John F. Hylan, who as a young man had been fired as an engineer by a predecessor to the B.R.T., capitalized on the crash in his unrelenting campaign for public ownership of the subways.
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Like today, the state — in the form of the Public Service Commission — was largely responsible for the subway system, which, at the time, was run by two private lines, the B.R.T.
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“These rules, it seems, are enforced by a group of campus bureaucrats and campus police with the Orwellian name of the Bias Response Team, or B.R.T.,”
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