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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first 24 hours, as they struggled through waist-high water. Says Liska: "We were just like sitting ducks for the Germans, sitting ducks in a pond." Human corpses became so familiar to Liska that by an odd flinch of his mind he vividly recalls instead pastures full of dead cows. "They were all lying there on their backs with their legs in the air," he says, "and I remember thinking that I never had seen a dead cow before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Daisies from the Killing Ground | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...that survived the atmospheric plunge to hit the earth is unknown. Shards have landed on more than a dozen nations, including Zambia, Finland and Nepal. As early as 1961, Premier Fidel Castro indignantly charged that a re-entering chunk of a U.S. spacecraft had struck and killed a Cuban cow. A year later, a 21-lb. metal cylinder landed at the intersection of North 8th and Park streets in Manitowoc, Wis. The debris was later identified by the U.S. Air Force as a fragment of Soviet Sputnik 4, launched two years earlier. It was the first certified piece of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Dodging Celestial Garbage | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...laxmen used a collapsing Zone at their end of the field that filled the penalty area with Harvard Square at rush hour congestion and sent the Tigers scurrying for the nearest cow pasture...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Laxmen Stymie Princeton | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...thing about men who call searching for dates at women's colleges "pighunting" is that their sense of humanity is limited, they justify their behavior by the fact these women are willing and therefore unworthy of consideration. Any person that would view a woman on a pig or a cow fresh for the slaughter might also view Jews. Blacks and homosexuals, or any other group that is alienated from them an less than human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pi Eta | 4/7/1984 | See Source »

...depreciation period, counts as an "off the top" deduction in the same way as savings in an Individual Retirement Account. It thus lowers the investor's taxable earnings. Next, 10% of what the investor pays for the livestock comes directly off his taxes. Also, through embryo transplants, each cow becomes a factory for calves, which can be sold profitably at auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Windmills, Cattle and Form 1040 | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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