Word: cowed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They'll produce a snuff bottle from the upper folds of their gowns, which double as carryalls, and hand it over for a snort while exchanging a long handshake. Bring appetite enough for thick, yak-milk yogurt, cheese and marmot meat hot from a dung-fired stove. Try fermented cow's or mare's milk. After a bowl or two, you'll be ready to invade Europe yourself...
...students expect the campaign's cash cow will be an auction to be held next Tuesday at the Watergate Hotel in Washington...
With foot-and-mouth disease creating Europe's second agriculture crisis of the year, Renate Künast, Germany's new Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, is getting some quick in-job training. Fresh from ordering the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals in the "mad cow" scare, Künast has been forced to authorize more killings - this time of livestock imported from Britain as a precaution against foot-and-mouth disease. Künast is a member of the Green party, and some Greens complain that her large-scale slaughter of animals - when only...
...nast's predecessor as Agriculture Minister, Karl-Heinz Funke, was a farmer who resigned amid the previous food crisis, the one over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease. Künast, 45, is a lawyer with no experience in agriculture. In appointing her to head a new ministry that combines consumer protection, food and farming, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared, "The German farming association has to accept that its influence is going to be shaved away." Künast made the same point to parliament, saying the bse crisis "marks the end of old-fashioned agriculture." Instead...
...earned a law degree. With her punk hair style, she seems the embodiment of trendy Berlin, a world apart from the farms of rural Germany. The leftist taz newspaper described Künast as "a bigmouth from [Berlin's neighborhood of] Kreuzberg, who can hardly tell a Holstein cow from a Vietnamese water buffalo...