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sacred cow
Any program, policy, or person that is regarded as being beyond attack or untouchable. The term references the status held by cows in Hindu culture, where the cow is regarded as a sacred animal.
In American politics, Social Security has been considered a sacred cow because it is so politically popular that most politicians would never support ending the program.
“Sacred Cow” was also the nickname of the first military aircraft used to transport a United States president. According to the National Museum of the Air Force, President Franklin D. Roosevelt flew in the Sacred Cow to meet Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin in the USSR for the Yalta Conference in February 1945.
Man accused of seeling armor-piercing ammo to Las Vegas killer arrested
http:// thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/372144-man-who-sold-armor-piercing-ammo-to-las-vegas-killer-arrested
I is the ninth letter and the third vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet
In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/) in Egyptian, but was reassigned to /j/ (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent /i/, the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words.
The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician yodh as their letter iota (⟨Ι, ι⟩) to represent /i/, the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent /j/ and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter 'j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably for both the vowel and the consonant, coming to be differentiated only in the 16th century.[2] The dot over the lowercase 'i' is sometimes called a tittle. In the Turkish alphabet, dotted and dotless I are considered separate letters, representing a front and back vowel, respectively, and both have uppercase ('I', 'İ') and lowercase ('ı', 'i') forms.
The Roman numeral Ⅰ represents the number 1.[5][6] In mathematics, the lowercase "i" represents the unit imaginary number.[7]