Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...someone who grew up in the area what it means to play in the Beanpot. He'll grope for words, maybe mumble something about "pride" or "electricity in the air." Then, a pause. As a kid, he played street hockey every day in sub-freezing weather, using the curbs for boards and garbage cans or a Rube Goldberg wooden contraption for a net; made his parents wake up at four in the morning to shuttle him to some dingy arena when ice time is cheaper and the Pee Wee team can practice; stared transfixed as Bobby Orr led the Bruins...
They may be only the eighth-strongest team in the NFL, but it's the Rams playing Sunday; San Diego, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Miami and New England aren't. Somehow, through all of the turmoil surrounding owner Carroll Rosenbloom's death, through all of the injuries and the sub-par games the team has survived to play another day. As Confucius would say, "That adds up to close game...
...into Afghanistan and Pakistan. Successful secessionist movements could tear away parts of some of those countries as well as of Iran, leaving a number of weak new countries ? the kind that usually tumble into social and economic chaos ? and dismembered older ones. All might be sub to penetration. Anarchy in Iran could also trigger a conflict with its uneasy neighbor, Iraq, which shelled border areas of Iran three weeks ago. The geopolitical stakes there would be so great that the superpowers would be sorely tempted to intervene...