No telling how this will end up playing out, but we're sure Apple isn't going to give up its little cash-cow ecosystem without a fight.

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The company is a large cap cash cow whose stock offers little to no growth.

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Again, these are cash-cow entities, very little maintenance required.

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And in fact, if the government plays its cards right, that cow might just become a little more lucrative.

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So, with garlic and herbs from our garden, along with yogurt from a friendly Vermont cow, I manage to capture a little bit of Georgia, if not of my past.

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Really what it had offered investors what this cash-cow aspect, this large cash-earning and little-maintenance-capex-requiring asset class.

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In Plattsmouth, complaints about the cow came in to the police department almost nightly, but officials figured there was little they could do but chase her away.

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Unlike Afghanistan, which has opium (and Iraq which has oil), the Horn has little of economic value to fuel a war: its frontline, after all, can barely keep a cow alive.

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