Word: cowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the fiercest controversy has come over what role Russia should play in a new union of the republics. Vice President Rutskoi denounced the new economic treaty as "banditry" that would allow the other republics to treat Russia as a "milch cow," then changed his mind when Ukraine pulled out. Burbulis has insisted that Russia should proclaim itself the "successor state" to the old Soviet Union and take over the institutions of central government. That has only intensified other republics' fear of being swallowed up into a new Russian empire...
...Eddie was a simple man. He had been born in a farm house a few miles out of Bangor. His father was a poor farmer, with a few acres of potato fields, some chickens, a cow and a vegetable patch. New England was a bad place to be poor...
...Sacred Cow. For 25 years, Harmilda has watched over Harvard, Ill., "Milk Center of the World." Last month the beloved bovine was threatened by road improvements...
...some might think it politically wiser to omit any mention of presidential maladies or medications, particularly with Dan Quayle as Vice President, Bush apparently does not. At a horseshoe throw last week on the South Lawn, Bush appeared in a T shirt featuring the milking end of a dead cow, its feet straight up in the air, with the caption REALLY, I'M FINE...
...Will the White House seize the opportunity to take away a perceived cash cow from the universities and add significant restrictions to Circular...