Word: cowed
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...allegations—and the fact that the U.N.’s rule-by-consensus Security Council has probably done more to diplomatize, coddle and talk about human tragedy than to truly lessen it, it’s time for humanitarians to come to terms with their sacred cow...
...White House, but Bush has exceeded all presidential precedents of subterfuge. Never before has a White House been so crass about doling out the spoils of war to its corporate cronies—Halliburton, Bechtel et al—while using the afterglow of victory to cow those who might object. The same administration that used patriotism as a gag on dissent is responsible for a treasonous leak that, if it had happened under a Democrat’s watch, would have Republicans calling for capital punishment for the perpetrators...
...Number of cows quarantined by Japan because they were raised with a bull that died last month of mad-cow disease; it was the country's eighth confirmed case of the disease...
...espresso drinks that would have paid for an early childhood education program. I wondered, for a moment, why someone would get so hung up about a miniscule tax that would have funded such an impeccably good cause. But of course, this was a tax on coffee, a sacred cow in the cradle of Starbucks, and this man, a cafe owner, took advantage of that sentiment to protect his profits. People like him managed to convince the rest of Seattle that this tax was an assault on their culture and to disregard the actual merits of the policy. Which brings...
...with Napster: distribute low price music online. And they know perfectly well that, even if lawsuits could stop the sharing, people would never go back to buying CD's. They are just trying to buy two or three years in which to keep milking the high price CD cow, before giving it up. But even this limited attempt is going to fail. Alberto Rezza Italy...