Word: cowing
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...Number of pre-packaged meals for Hurricane Katrina victims from the U.K. rejected by U.S. aid agencies due to a U.S. ban on British beef over mad cow disease...
...guess I’d say I have a curiosity about them. This habit came from my dad. He was in the cattle business and he used to always carry a notebook in case he saw a sick cow or broken fence, so that he’d remember to get somebody to go take care of it. When I started running for governor in 1977 I was being overwhelmed with information and so at that point I took this habit and tried to organize it on a more consistent basis. [He pulls a petite blue log from his pocket...
Replete with a mechanical bull, dunk tank, cow-milking, and pie-eating, last Friday’s Harvard State Fair was a resounding success. We applaud the Office of the Dean, and particularly the duo of Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II and Campus Life Fellow Justin H. Haan ’05 who planned the event, for a job well done...
...realm below?in the economy, or the "substructure" of capitalist society, as Karl Marx called it. Industry has ruthlessly cut costs by downsizing and off-shoring. Today, Germany's unit-labor costs have fallen way below those of Italy, Spain and France. While job-protection remains a holy cow, business and labor have quietly agreed to let weekly working hours creep up and paid vacation days come down. Almost one-third of the German workforce is now temporary or part-time, granting companies a generous measure of flexibility. Nationwide labor contracts have long been sacred, stubbornly ignoring local economic conditions...
...TAXES They have to be made more rational. Congress has found the ultimate cash cow in the U.S. airlines, which pay 14 separate taxes. The Air Transport Association says the industry is going to lose $10 billion this year, but the government is taking $15.2 billion in special aviation taxes and fees. If the industry were to pay only one-third of its taxes for 2005, it might break even! Few passengers realize that more than 20% of the average $200 ticket is taxes and fees. The government is hooked on those revenues like a junkie and can't seem...