Word: cowed
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Summers’ position as the most powerful president in recent history should not cow us into silence or blind reverence. That is not an appropriate role for those who care about their university. This does not mean that we should simply abide by what the faculty says, nor criticize whatever Summers does. What it means is that we should listen closely to the critics in our midst, and formulate a coherent stance of our own that does not just mimic what the nearest authority figure says...
...civilians wave at the attackers, who continue to blast away. The convoy drives on, past the fray. The rear humvee, its driver obviously bored with the proceedings, wanders off the road to chase a cow...
...Cross is limited in its ability to collect blood by regulations spelled out by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which prevents individuals from donating if it deems them to be at risk for carrying number of diseases, including hepatitis C, HIV and the human form of mad cow disease. Screening for these diseases is a two-step process: first, the battery of questions that all donors face, such as those about sex with other men, and second, extensive testing of the donated blood. In 2000, a committee of FDA advisers narrowly voted to continue the restriction that...
...early December massacre of eighteen young Shiite men, the January 2nd bombing of a National Guard bus or the January 5th bombing of a police graduation ceremony show that the insurgents do not enjoy the widespread popular support sometimes claimed but rather are resorting to fear-inducing attacks to cow the population into submission. Attacks on Iraqi civilians often yield as many casualties as an entire month’s combat operations for United States forces. Alternately kidnapping, beheading, blowing up, or shooting in the back of the head the people whose “hearts and minds?...
Ronald Reagan last week called it "a political football" kicked around by "demagoguery" and "falsehoods." To one of the President's advisers it is "the most sacred cow we have around here" ... The subject is Social Security, the nation's biggest, broadest and probably most successful social program. To some 36 million people, the Social Security system now provides a monthly check promising that old age, widowhood or disabling injury will not throw them into poverty. To 116 million others who pay Social Security taxes, the system offers assurance that they too will be taken care of when they become...