Last year's winner, Maria Sharapova, was once so uncomfortable on clay that she described herself as a cow on ice.
One of the reasons that the Reynolds women were so attracted to vanilla is that a single producing vanilla vine can support an entire Haitian family financially for a year, much as a cow might help a poor farmer subsist.
Some financial buyers could simply regard it as a wasting asset that can be used as a cash cow to fund other activities.
Western governments should invest directly in small-scale, specialist organisations such as Send a Cow, that will deliver long-term results.
Often dismissed as a "cow college, " Washington State was now home to the president of the largest student organization in the United States.
Chavez relied on the oil revenues of PDVSA as a cash cow to fund social development projects, food subsidies, and housing projects for his base.
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More specifically, North Korea has been angry with the portrayal in the South of the complex as a cash cow for its regime that it can't afford to lose.
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Instead of investing in PDVSA to increase production, Mr Chavez has treated it as a cash cow, milking its funds to finance his social spending on housing, healthcare and transport.
Surely it is plain that it is better to invest in the expertise of small-scale specialist organisations such as Send a Cow, and to accept that charities administered by farmers engineers or doctors (and like professionals)represent best value for money.
Given the Clinton Administration's well-established priorities, perhaps the only way to ensure that the latter effort receives the funds it deserves, and ceases to serve as a cash cow for other purposes, would be to rename the Strategic Defense Initiative the Children's Defense Initiative.
In fact, using Office as a cash-cow while they play out a uniform interface, apps and content strategy across entertainment (as the gateway to the TV), mobile through Nokia, the tablet through Surface, and the dying PC through its traditional channels, looks like a strong play.
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Alex Folkes, the Lib Dem councillor for Launceston Central, said the council viewed car parks as "a massive cash cow which can be milked for as much money as possible".
As head of a cow protection enforcement team, he regularly scours Delhi grocery stores and outdoor markets for food products containing cow beef.
It is also dawning belatedly on the Treasury that the days of treating transport as a convenient milch cow are coming to an end.
While 90% of its earnings before income tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) come from five key industrial assets, the company has its marketing unit as a substantial cash cow.
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In June she criticised Mr Penning after he announced the government would provide no more money to councils for fixed speed cameras and suggested they could be seen as a "cash cow".
She told MSPs that the "least worst option" was to set a flat-rate fee for RUK (Rest of UK) students across the sector, to prevent them from being seen as a "cash cow" as "potentially they are now".
Not surprisingly, they see wireless downloads directly to handsets as a potential cash cow, and so don't expect them to be thrilled about anything that circumvents that, like letting people use iTunes to transfer songs over from a computer.
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And there's a warning to both London and Edinburgh politicians: while the public finances are in a lot of trouble, "The temptation to regard the industry as a cash-cow to meet short-term needs will be strong, but should be resisted".
Beloved as a beautiful painting that is mysterious, intriguing and compelling, Leonardo da Vinci's classic Mona Lisa was hated by some Dadaists because it had become a sacred cow no longer appreciated as a painting, but instead, commodified on postcards, posters and coffee mugs.
Opponents claimed that he wanted to inflict a defeat on the judiciary ahead of a law reform later this year, and that he also hoped to cow the president as part of a broader strategy aimed at taking over the presidency himself and giving Italy what his admirers say would be a more decisive form of presidential government.
Having even a small cushion of savings to fall back on allows people to deal with unexpected expenses, such as medical treatment, without having to sell a cow or take a child out of school.
Most are embracing the technology and will therefore gain some revenue from it but the fact that the prices for VoIP are much lower means it will not be a cash cow in the same way as fixed telephone services have been in the past.
It may have been the last Major League Soccer game for David Beckham, a global brand that continues to be a cash cow off the field, even as his skills diminish off the field.
Internet-based applications such as Apple's Messages are starting to take over from what was once a cash cow for phone companies.
Katia saw that he had no intention of leaping on the cow, which seemed horrible as though the lion had acquired a human brain.
Japan is especially reluctant to do so, as was illustrated by a recent spat over American beef, in which fears of mad-cow disease strengthened the hands of protectionists.
The ministry would also like to oversee a wider distribution of genes from the small percentage of British rams that are resistant to scrapie, a sheep disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease as it is more commonly known.
And there are obligatory banquets featuring such local specialities as cow's lungs, ox's forehead, steamed rabbits' ears, a casseroled tortoise and an entire deer's penis.
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