Word: cowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood wit, "the last person you'd want to spill a drink on at a cocktail party." These, and a great gut for pop culture, served him well as chairman of Paramount Pictures from 1974 to '84, when it produced golden-calf movies (Grease, Flashdance) and cash-cow TV series (Taxi, Cheers). Then he took over 20th Century Fox, where he stanched its financial hemorrhaging, stabilized its film program and, oh, started the first successful TV network in 40 years...
...personal goal is to live on afarm and rule a dog and a cow...
...more example: A man jumps inside a cow and decides to stay there and drink the "fresher than dairy-fresh milk...
Some elite institutions have already offered up that cow for sacrifice. Two years ago, Smith College, which spends $13.7 million a year on financial aid, announced that it could no longer afford a need-blind admissions policy. As a result, 29 otherwise qualified candidates for last fall's freshman class -- 11 of them women of color -- were rejected. Under pressure from students and alumnae, Smith resumed its need-blind policy this year, but the result is likely to be the same. While those 29 students would probably be admitted now, Smith still wouldn't be able to give them...
That question is nearly always answered with the same casual assumption: the U.S., of course. Having dumped $4 billion into the country since 1980, the U.S. has become El Salvador's cash cow. A major cutback of funds from Washington was once as unthinkable as a slash in Soviet aid to Cuba; now it may also be just as inevitable. Ambassador William Walker tries to convince Salvadorans that American support for their country is unwavering. Yet he acknowledges, "I don't know any more than they do what's going to happen up on Capitol Hill." Given the economic climate...