Word: cowing
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...Holy cow...
...have learned from them. But I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is. You don't have to have lived through an immense amount of agony and pain in order to relate to people who are suffering. I really care about what happens to people, and when I first began to read those letters, it was an eye-opener. I came from a very solid Midwestern Jewish home. You see, I led a very sheltered life. I had never seen a man hit his wife. I had never seen any drunkenness...
...Arizonans prefer inner tubes. The car or truck tubes rent for $6.25 a day at the Salt River recreation area outside Phoenix. Somewhat more economically, up at the Heady-Ashburn cattle ranch in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, Sonny and Nancy McCuistion and their two hired hands head for the cow troughs. "The cows are a little surprised at first, but they're gentle," says Nancy. "Of course when you get out, it feels funny riding back in wet Levi...
...real problem, according to Cole, is that some professors are traditionalists, wedded to the old methods of research and resistant to the introduction of modern technology. Widener's floor plan is the sacred cow of the Harvard research establishment, Cole says, and faculty are reluctant to tamper with...
...four U.S. companies that make BST -- Monsanto, Eli Lilly, Upjohn and American Cyanamid -- are having trouble understanding why it is so controversial. They point out that BST is a natural hormone produced by a cow's pituitary gland and present in all milk. In fact, they assert, milk from BST-treated cows has no more BST than regular milk. The companies contend that BST injections would merely enable dairy farmers to produce the same amount of milk with fewer cows. "BST is about efficiency," asserts Monsanto spokesman Laurence O'Neill. Says Stephen White, BST project manager for American Cyanamid...