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- proper noun A male
given name , a rather rare spelling variant ofReuben . - proper noun A
surname .
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Examples
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Chanda Rubin is the only player to have beaten Williams in the last
USATODAY.com - Nalbandian loses, Kournikova wins in Moscow 2002
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Rubin is the second high-profile cabinet member to definitively declare that he is leaving following the defeat of Mayor Adrian Fenty in last month's Democratic primary.
In mass e-mail, D.C. Fire Chief Rubin announces he'll leave when Gray takes office Anne Bartlett 2010
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Few Democrats could bring themselves to criticize Clinton when he brought in Rubin and institutionalized the Wall Street Paradigm of wild cat finance and obliterated every last memory of Democratic economic principals.
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Rubin is a god in Democratic circles because they beleive that the economic growth of the 1990's and Rubin's unique explanation of it (and the disingenuous credit he has taken for it) gives them the justification for raising taxes.
Interest Rate Debate, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Few Democrats could bring themselves to criticize Clinton when he brought in Rubin and institutionalized the Wall Street Paradigm of wild cat finance and obliterated every last memory of Democratic economic principals.
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Ideology always fails to account for nature; witness the glaring lacuna in Rubin's argument: that all individuals are equal in ability and desire, and unencumbered by ethnic, racial, or cultural biases (unless of course they oppose the dogma, at which point they become primitives of a sort).
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Mark's case against Rubin is strong - but it is even stronger when one looks closer at modern sociopolitical reality.
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So Jennifer Rubin is concerned about the number of Conservative Jews.
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But Rubin is partially correct in that the old world did believe that trade was a zero-sum game.
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Rubin is half right when he claims that "readers of fiction, caught up in the telling of a tale, are drawn into the imaginative orbit of the teller."
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