Word: milked
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...Milk has many beneficial qualities, but being a good fertilizing agent is not one of them. The millions of liters of milk that dairy farmers dumped on fields in France, Germany, Belgium and other European countries on Monday, Sept. 21, won't yield a bountiful harvest, but the farmers hope that the protest will at least raise awareness of their plight...
...More than 80,000 farmers took part in the continent-wide day of action, which, along with the milk-dumping, also included a "milk strike," with farmers refusing to deliver to industrial conglomerates that produce cheese, skimmed milk and other products. The farmers' aim: to force the European Union to take action to combat plunging milk prices, which they say have left them in financial ruin. (Read "China's Poisoned-Milk Scandal: Is Sorry Enough...
...bragging to him that I got up 15 minutes early every morning to check the news during camp, and he started telling me about heating up milk and changing diapers before he came to practice—that’s the last time I bragged about getting up early,” captain Carl Ehrlich says...
...other times, the milk we sell brings in less money than our current bills. To pay our bills, we have to sell some of our cows. But we must be very cautious how we thin the herd, because selling cows to fund current expenses means that we will have less milk to sell next year and less money to fund future expenses. If we don’t plan carefully, we will have to sell even more cows at the end of next year, or begin to cut our future expenses...
...this fictional world, the global financial crisis that affected Harvard and all of us last fall is a disease that killed off 27.3 percent of our herd. Looking to the future, we know the remaining cows will not produce enough milk to pay our bills...