Word: cowing
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...poisoning techniques, developed with the support of funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development, have been tested successfully, the back-painting in Mexico and Brazil and the cow injections in Mexico. Both methods will soon be extended to other countries, beginning next month in Bolivia...
...there is a Pulitzer or other prize for the man who said it all in one sentence, it should go to whoever wrote of the UNCTAD in Santiago that "The conference presumes that the U.S. is a giant cow and that there should be a teat for every developing country in the world...
Physicians in ancient times attempted to treat chronic headaches with remedies that owed more to folklore than pharmacopoeia. Some believed in trepanning, or opening the skull, to let out the attacking demons. Others prescribed elixirs of cow's brain and goat dung. American Indians used beaver testes, a sounder idea than it seems. The preparation has since been deter mined to contain a salicylate similar to regular aspirin...
...nearly broke Chilean government. They listened to 1,120 hours of speeches, mostly impassioned pleas for preferential trade deals and fat increases in foreign aid for developing countries. But they made no real progress. As one weary U.S. delegate explained: "The conference presumes that the U.S. is a giant cow and that there should be a teat for every developing country in the world...
...import quotas have been something of a sacred cow through four successive U.S. Administrations, certainly including Richard Nixon's. Yet last week Nixon signed a proclamation allowing importers to bring in an average 230,000 bbl. more a day for 1972, about 15% more than before. Because there are just over seven months left in the year, the daily increase will really amount...