Word: cowed
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Global marketers still have to cater to Indian tastes, which can take some doing. Just ask Vikram Bakshi, managing director of McDonald's India. When McDonald's opened its first outlet in 1996, it had to toss out much of its standard menu: Hindus consider a cow sacred and won't eat beef. Bakshi tried introducing India-friendly alternatives. In place of the classic Big Mac, Bakshi offered a burger with mutton patties, christening it the Maharaja Mac after India's princely historic rulers. The sandwich flopped and was pulled from the menu...
...many as a decade ago. Meditation classes today are being filled by mainstream Americans who don't own crystals, don't subscribe to New Age magazines and don't even reside in Los Angeles. For upwardly mobile professionals convinced that their lives are more stressful than those of the cow-milking, soapmaking, butter-churning generations that preceded them, meditation is the smart person's bubble bath...
...Have trouble breaking spoken words into syllables, such as cowboy into cow...
...peers for his clean, lilting, meticulous style, he was less famous in the U.S. than fellow bandleaders Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller--all of whom flocked to him for arrangements. The author of such hits as Only Trust Your Heart and the novelty tune Cow Cow Boogie, Carter turned his focus to Hollywood in the early 1940s, arranging and composing for films like Stormy Weather and An American in Paris, and later TV series including M Squad and Ironside...
...tale of how Marie Antoinette trod on her executioner's foot, then begged his pardon, has been told. But while "her defenders cite this as an example of her sturdy harmlessness, civil and without malice to the end," writes Steel, his own view is less charitable: "The feisty cow meant it." Steel doesn't limit his jibes to historical targets; he frequently invokes modern parallels - especially British establishment types - to emphasize a point. His mention of the guillotine as a liberal, more humanitarian method of execution prompts a riff on how shrill-voiced arch-Tory Ann Widdecombe would have complained...