Word: rub
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...inmates over state lines. To date, Oklahoma and Rhode Island have contracted to house temporarily a total of 226 inmates. Even so, unless Hunt can persuade legislators to raise the statutory cap by March 15, he will be forced to release 3,400 inmates. And therein lies the rub. The mandatory sentences that keep drug offenders in push violent criminals out. In Florida drug sentences of, on average, four years have cut time dramatically for other inmates. The average prisoner serves just 41% of his time; serious thugs do half. Although the standard sentence for robbery is 8.6 years...
...Individuals, and businesses too small to effectively extort these payments subsidize the border-hoppers with higher taxes. Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois, who is stuck dealing with more than 300 million dollars in incentives doled out to a handful of companies by his predecessor, has come to realize this rub: "Once you get something, you might have given up so much it wasn't worth getting [the project], and everyone else that pays taxes is frustrated," Edgar told the National Journal last April...
...daily passengers camped out on concourses, their luggage serving as makeshift pillows. In Dallas one harried American ticket agent was at the end of her rope: "I just called my husband and told him that when I get home tonight, I'm going to need a back rub and a drink. Badly...
First, after losing feeling in his arm after tackles last season, he went to the doctor in February. The doctor attributed the disorder to a congenital brain malformation, which was causing his skull to rub up against the base of his brain after contact. As a result, he underwent surgery to remove a part of the skull and first vertebrate...
...even some elements in the I.R.A. -- have moved away from their demand for unconditional British withdrawal and full union with the South. But Catholics in the North insist upon a plan that would protect their rights and link them in some way with the Republic. And there's the rub, since Protestant leaders still cling to their belief that the province's union with Britain is immutable...