Word: cowing
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...stable is better, for there you have a donkey that carries a load and a cow that provides milk. The parliament is worse than a stable.' MALALAI JOYA, female member of the Afghan parliament and longtime critic of fellow legislators whom she deems to be warlords. Joya was suspended after making the comment, in a television interview, that compared parliament to a stable...
...stable is better, for there you have a donkey that carries a load and a cow that provides milk. The parliament is worse than a stable...
Jamestown also was the first place to find a cash cow and an economic system for exploiting it. The Powhatan smoked a crude indigenous species of tobacco. But in 1612, John Rolfe imported seeds of Nicotiana tabacum, the Spanish-American weed that was already a craze in England. By 1620 the colony had shipped almost 50,000 lbs. home. Fifty years later, Virginia and Maryland would ship 15 million lbs. Tobacco and foodstuffs were grown on privately owned farms. Beginning in 1618, old settlers were offered 100 acres of land, and newcomers who paid their way were given 50 acres...
...companies are thus not only betraying students but also the American government and the American dream. The monetary incentives for such behavior are reaching unimaginable proportions. The student loan industry is approximately a $14 billion per year industry, and it is growing. All it takes to create a cash cow is to establish a niche at a few universities. Ultimately it falls to colleges to resist the temptation to make a quick buck and stand up for their students. That universities are failing to do so has been brought to light both by investigations by New York Attorney General Andrew...
...chestnut, another is clad in crackled local clay. In a third hangs an exquisite 12-m-wide filigree curtain made of 10,000 horse-chestnut stalks pinned together with thorns. High on a hill overlooking the park, all but a snaking ribbon of picture window has been covered in cow dung. "It works like the landscape itself," Goldsworthy says. "From a distance you think that's beautiful. Get up close and you think, Hmm." www.ysp.co.uk