Word: cow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amendments is the requirement that the bill be revenue neutral: it must neither lose nor raise revenue over a five-year period. Anyone who offers an amendment that costs revenue is virtually obliged to propose another way to make up the lost money. Thus preserving one Senator's sacred cow would mean goring another...
...competing interests" of prosecutorial revelations and the need to protect the national security, the two intelligence chiefs warned reporters against "speculation and reporting details beyond the information actually released at trial." Allan Adler, legislative counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, called the statement part of a campaign "to cow the press in national security reporting." Said Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee: "How the press covers this trial is a matter for the press to decide, not the Government...
...working as a security guard in the federal court in San Diego when the phone rang on his birthday, Dec. 13, 1984. His wife Marilyn took the call and relayed the unexpected invitation from the Chief of Naval Operations. "You jumped on that like a buzzard on a dead cow," she told him as he went out the door the next morning for his re-enlistment physical. Kennedy and a select group of other noncommissioned officers with years of skill and leadership were chosen by the Navy to help bring the Missouri and her sister battleships, the Iowa...
...great appeal of the free-for-all farce lies mostly in its outrageousness. Its sights are trained equally upon every sacred cow. During last year's Christmas special, for example, Prince Philip was shown clutching a bottle of liquor, with Princess Anne collapsed on his shoulder and a housewifely Queen sporting a button that read BAN THE BOMB. In another sketch, a wooden Prince Charles knocks forlornly on his wife's bedroom door, calling, "Does one want to do a jigsaw with one?" Prince Andrew's fiancee Sarah ("Fergie") Ferguson has already become one of the show's targets...
...rather, was whether the Administration was ready to take the risks of ordering a hard, unilateral strike. Those risks are both obvious and grave. Some U.S. pilots and other service members might be killed carrying out bombing runs of the scale being contemplated. Even severe military damage might not cow Gaddafi into calling off or slowing down terrorist attacks. On the contrary, he might intensify them, as he seems to have done after the Gulf of Sidra battle. Might Gaddafi carry out terrorist attacks inside the U.S., as he has often threatened to do? "We certainly do not overlook that...