Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colleague the waterfowl painter. The man in the decoy dodge calls the man who employs canvas a "flat artist," putting a spin of denigration on the term. Flat art frequently commands a much higher price than the decorative decoy, which often takes much longer to produce. Therein lies the rub. The painter responds that if his work is any good, it is just as exacting-only his tools are different. If he is a cad he may call his work a higher art form...
...F.M.L.N. delegation: Guillermo Ungo and Rubén Zamora of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, the rebels' political wing; Eduardo Sancho Castañeda (known as Fermán Cienfuegos), Lucio Castellanos, Facundo Guardado and Nidia Diaz, guerrilla military leaders...
...past two decades, either on their own accord or at the prompting of the courts, government agencies, schools and private businesses have tried to take affirmative action to provide jobs, educational opportunities and government contracts for minorities. The rub is that these plans sometimes discriminate against whites. While striking down explicit quotas in Bakke, the court has generally backed affirmative action...
Drama, music and comedy rub shoulders in three fall films...
...surname. Even though her husband has studiously stayed away from the campaign, her popularity is inexorably linked to his. Pierre du Pont, completing his second term, has an approval rating of some 90%. "Pete du Pont has turned the state around," says Rotarian John Newcomer. "And that has to rub...