Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...washed away with blood." Revenge has its undeniable satisfactions. It is a primal scream that shatters glass. But revenge is not an intelligent basis for a foreign policy. This century has already fulfilled its quota of smoke and rage and survivors, gray with bomb dust, staggering around in the rub ble, seeking what is left of the dead they loved...
There was the rub. It was fine for people who owned cars to car pool or drive north to suburban train stations. It was merely inconvenient for those insulated by corporate life to get up at 6 a.m. and fall into the provided cab. It was actually a lark for the physical-fitness buffs, who could test their independence. But for many of the poor and infirm, the transit strike was a disaster...
...there's a rub...
...franchise with then Rams Owner Robert Irsay and also managed to make a tax-free $4.4 million profit on the deal. Going it alone was a quality Rosenbloom taught his son Steve, 35, and his second wife Georgia, 52, who was to become his widow, and therein lay the rub...