Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrity photos. Bodyguard Moosleh Hajim Jabara strains parody as an Ethiopian-born retired pro-football player who changed his name to DeLeon Johnson. LaDonna Holly Padgett is a former Miss Oklahoma and Miss Congeniality well on her way to such titles as Miss Cordial and Miss Bloody Mary. The rub-out of a Mafioso in the mandatory spaghetti joint summons up the sensible suggestion, "You'd think those guys'd learn to eat some other kind of food...
...accommodations, VIP treatment at airports, resorts and hospitals off limits to outsiders, special schools for their children, access to stores selling consumer goods and food at reduced prices. They live far removed from the common man and, indeed, have to go out of their way if they wish to rub elbows with the less exalted. The highest group in the nomenklatura is separated from most citizens by a barrier as psychologically imposing as the Great Wall of China. This class constitutes virtually a state within a state...
...design can help us save money, and you know how much that warms my heart." The President's interest cannot fail to shake up the bureaucracy a little. And more attention to the quality of a product's appearance would not only improve the prestige of Government but might rub off on U.S. industry, which needs better design to improve its position in the world market...
...There's a moral passion in that book that had to rub off any children that sat around the Bok table," says Aloian, the director of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...underlined at the meeting's end as each summed up the discussions. "The road to peace isn't an easy one," said Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, the government representative (President José Napoleón Duarte did not attend). Then, as the government side sped away, Rubén Zamora, the best-known member of the rebel delegation, climbed the steps to the microphones with three colleagues. Said Facundo Guardado, a senior guerrilla commander: "There is an oligarchical power that shares and applies the policies of the Reagan Administration, a power that is imposing itself against the will...