It seems as though that's one of the sacred cows that we've been talking about.
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Only someone not afraid to slaughter sacred cows, they say, can get the job done.
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Indeed, the key to solving the fiscal cliff is the sacrifice of sacred cows.
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But one measure, certainly, is your willingness to take on the sacred cows in your own party.
But first, presidential candidate Barack Obama tipped one of the great sacred cows of American politics this week.
With the threat of runaway deficits, debts, and interest payments, the U.S. cannot afford any budget sacred cows.
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The basic state pension, first introduced in 1908, is one of the sacred cows of Britain's welfare state.
Another Swiss trait is an innate and unquestioning tendency to identify with their country's institutions and sacred cows.
It sends a message that there are no sacred cows or sacred executives.
President Obama and the Democrats have placed a number of their sacred cows on the butcher block (the negotiating table?).
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As everyone involved has admitted, this is a daunting challenge, requiring the goring of sacred cows of all political persuasions.
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Now, Pena Nieto is declaring that there are no more sacred cows.
Full of sacred cows that need to be put out to pasture.
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In it Townsend mocks many of the sacred cows of corporate life.
After many years, however, such incentives become sacred cows and any suggestion that they be removed from the Code is met with stiff opposition.
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All recognized that pet projects and sacred cows had to meet the tests of commonly defined national security priorities or be reduced or jettisoned.
And that, in some ways, fails that other test, too, in terms of your willingness to take on the sacred cows in your own party.
Traffic jams contend with sacred cows, ambling camels and rickety rickshaws.
You could not assume there were sacred cows across the business.
He told the experts at the health forum - including doctors, nurses, insurance professionals and lawmakers - there would be no "sacred cows" in the discussions.
Sacred cows were trotted out, red herring arguments were everywhere.
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But if you look at what Bob Gates has been doing in the Defense Department in really going after some sacred cows over at the Pentagon, he's been serious about it.
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But it does mean toppling a few sacred cows.
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Their courage in goring so many of Hollywood's sacred cows is palpable given that community's notorious practice of ensuring that those who are shunned never "eat lunch" (read, work) in that town again.
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In your past life I think you were -- your institution certainly was involved in that, and they called for -- they were looking at two sacred cows: mortgage interest deductions and employer-provided health care.
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If one of us tweeted about the delicious steak dinner, for example, we might offend people in our networks for whom cows are sacred.
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