Word: cowed
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...evolving Iraqi Baathism has integrated a tendency to deify President Hussein. Ofra Bengio’s incisive look at Iraqi politics, Saddam’s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq, describes Saddam’s rule as a horrible regime that uses terror to cow and coerce the Iraqi people into messianic idolatry of His Excellency. In recent years, despite the broad pauperization and Iraqi civilians, Saddam is increasingly compared with the Prophet Mohammed. Bengio further describes Saddam’s use of the media, artists and poets as propaganda peddlers who conform history and truth to Saddam?...
...they would have to pay royalties every year to the companies that engineered the crop. At this point any self-respecting conspiracy theorist would be asking if this was a cynical ploy to get G.M. foods under the E.U.’s radar, and create a cash cow for the biotech business. And this is not an isolated incident either. Just this month, India refused a shipment of 1,000 tons of corn-soya mix when the U.S. again refused to guarantee that no G.M. foods were contained in the shipment...
...Shopping period] has become something of a sacred cow,” said Burgard. “I’m going to listen to the arguments and hope that some attention is paid to this pedagogical consideration that I think is the most important...
...India, Russia, and Pakistan--have them. North Korea uses its weapons to blackmail the rest of the world into propping it up with food aid and energy. And who knows? Perhaps Saddam Hussein--we're being charitable here--wants weapons of mass destruction not for offensive purposes but to cow domestic rivals so that he can be assured of dying in his bed rather than swinging from a Baghdad lamppost...
...administration’s] first line of defense is always to play on the naïveté of the students who don’t know the inner workings of the system and use dean-speak to cow you,” Vaux says. “I don’t think that would work...