Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present internal revenue code, 2,052 pages long and decades in the making, is for some the symbol of government bureaucracy at its most inefficient. But it has the staunch support of diverse special interest groups which benefit from tax deductions for everything from cow breeding to three-martini business luncheons...
...sexual appetite waxes and wanes even in the best relationships. Believe it or not, she also advises people to be careful about sharing details of their sex lives. She talks about one man who admitted to an encounter group that he was turned on whenever he saw a cow. The group was bound by secrecy, but when the poor fellow got to his office, his secretary and everyone else began calling...
...work brilliantly embodied the crisis of belief in finesse and cultural hierarchies that hit postwar French intellectual life. He had an unerring instinct for farce. Picasso had painted bulls, but for decades few advanced artists had painted a cow, and when Dubuffet did so it seemed to set itself against a whole tradition of animal as heroic metaphor. And for those who (understandably) yearned for a return to the French pictorial tradition of luxe, calme et volupte, the sight of Dubuffet's monstrous kippered nudes squashed flat in their beds of pigment was not only an affront, it was like...
...Congress and the President must act soon. If the reforms don't bring the needed revenue and defense remains a sacred cow then taxes will have to be raised. In two years time, with elections around the corner, nobody is going to support a tax hike. For the sake of economic well-being, then, the deficit must be cut. The three ways of doing that are tax reform, tax hike, or fewer bombs. Take your pick...
Like many independent oilmen, Pickens was born within sight of working wells. He grew up in Holdenville, Okla. (pop. 6,300), a cow town surrounded by pastures, where cattle graze alongside active oil pumps. An only child, Pickens was raised on a street of white clapboard houses and green lawns. The family is fond of tracing its ancestry back to the same part of England that produced a distant kinsman, Daniel Boone...