Word: cowed
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...roads. While it's true that leaders staged a fistfight in 1800 to determine where to place the county seat--the town of Tazewell (pop. 4,100) was the winner--residents like to point up their law-and-order quietness with the story of how they once put a cow in jail because they could not tolerate the clanging bell. Now the county's crime woes have made it a case study in how prescription-pill abuse has stressed a judicial system to the breaking point, overwhelming cops, sheriffs, prosecutors and judges...
Only at a huge cost. To the federal government, the AMT has become a cash cow, projected to generate $660 billion of tax revenue over the next 10 years. In 2010 alone, the AMT will bring in $105 billion of additional tax revenue, or 9% of all federal income tax. Plagued by deficits, Congress is loath to turn its back on this bonanza--especially since it hits a relatively small political constituency...
What does it mean to be hot? What does it mean to be one of the 15 hottest? We have absolutely no idea, except that these eight women and seven men look a lot more like beautiful sculptures than they do cow carcasses...
...Chechen warlord’s invasion of Dagestan, and Chechnya’s general state of lawlessness, Russian military forces invaded in 1999. Putin left Russian military forces free to violate internationally accepted norms of warfare, presumably with the hope that ferocious and indiscriminate use of force would cow the impudent Chechens...
Mallozzi’s work is so gripping and unrelentingly committed to understanding the kids’ life-altering problems that, while watching, I couldn’t help but wonder how she had wrangled with that sacred cow of documentary filmmaking: objectivity. So, in the post-viewing Q&A session, I’ve just asked her how she managed to maintain objectivity during such painful periods in her subjects’ lives, and whether or not she intervened at all. Immediately after I’ve spoken, I realize that my question could present her with a dangerous...