Word: rub
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...brilliant, perhaps it should happen every election. We make it as far as the conventions, and then the two winners can spend the next few months getting to know each other, having a couple of beers, becoming buddies, learning to agree on everything. But there's the rub...
...after which both the Giants and Dodgers left New York. The Mets were spawned in 1962, and since then New York City has been the site of a constant ongoing rivalry. This series is the culmination of 39 years of trash-talking and angry debate as fans rub elbows in the subways, in sports bars--the city makes escape impossible. Thirty-nine years of pride is now on the line: This is what the city has been waiting for. Make no mistake, the games played this week will be talked about in the Big Apple for decades to come...
...there's a rub. Americans are more tied to the stock market than ever, and most of their holdings are of large U.S.-based companies. As the euro slides, so does the profit picture at those kinds of companies. Why? They do business across the globe. When the foreign currencies they are paid in lose value against the dollar, that translates into lower profits at home...
...raises our game with his intensity. I wish some of his intensity would rub off some more on the other guys on the field," Kerr said...
Sometimes all this money was delivered privately. Sometimes it was delivered at public fund raisers held along the Strip. In that November 1997 fund raiser, gaming executives paid at least $1,000 a person to rub shoulders with Republican leaders Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, in an event that gaming officials characterized as a "tremendous success." Democrats received similar treatment in July 1999 when House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island and Ways and Means ranking member Charles Rangel of New York attended a Las Vegas luncheon...