Bulls contend that when demand moderates, this investment in infrastructure will become a cash cow.
Quite a cash cow considering the club could not consistently qualify for the Premiership.
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Europe has not been just a cash cow, but an important source for political thinking.
As oil grows scarce, the price will soar, they say, making even oil sands a cash cow.
In the past it benefited from an overheated property market that was a cash cow for the treasury.
Its operating system continues to dominate the PC market and its Office suite continues to be a cash cow.
It's a cash cow that will be subsidizing other papers, certainly The Times.
"It has become a cash cow for Lincoln Center, and this was not the idea, " said the family's Sidney Urquhart.
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Perhaps Monitor could have survived if it had broken itself into two pieces: a cash cow and an innovation engine.
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Internet-based applications such as Apple's Messages are starting to take over from what was once a cash cow for phone companies.
Some financial buyers could simply regard it as a wasting asset that can be used as a cash cow to fund other activities.
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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For Mr Abramovich, the case was simply about greed - a well paid political fixer who got well above his station and who treated the Chelsea Football Club owner like a cash cow.
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.
Figures like Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and Andrew Ross Sorkin (the editor of the DealBook business blog, which has been a cash cow for The Times) would be worth a great deal on the open market.
"Up until now, patent donations have been a cash cow because the IRS turned an inadvertent blind eye, " says David Martin , chief executive of M-CAM , the Virginia-based company the IRS hired to help detect abusive tax strategies relating to patents.
"Not only does Tencent have a cash cow in its strong gaming business, but the company is also best-positioned in high-potential markets like social media and mobile Internet services, " said Jefferies analyst Cynthia Meng, who has a buy rating on Tencent's stock.
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.
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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That is thanks mainly to the cement business, which is a sturdy cash cow.
Meanwhile, the company's traditional, lower-end cellphone business, a steady cash cow in high-growth emerging markets, is under growing threat from less-expensive Asian handsets.
That is an amount of money that translates a free download to a massive cash cow even if it gets only 0.5% of the Angry Birds download base.
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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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".
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