Word: lid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most searing of all is Turner's tearjerking meaculpa, tracing his discovery that he would have to tread a different path in life. The moment comes at perhaps Turner's lowest point in the film; he has just finished "blowing off the lid" completely with a striking male hooker, and the wrenching innards come spilling out as he stares glazed-eyed into the shadow-draped confines of his Toronto flat. The essence of his platonic relationship with Liza reveals itself in all its poignant fullness here; comforting the dejected Turner, Liza eggs him on to do something "dazzling...
What then of public financing for abortions? Should citizens have to pay for an operation they find morally repugnant? A few years ago, stores sold anihilistically spirited black box: when one pushed a button on its side, the box whirred and opened, a hand appeared from under a lid-and turned the box off. The Supreme Court's latest decision- and Carter's attitude toward it-has something of the same self-canceling effect. The court made abortion legal; now it has rescinded an important advantage of that legality by making it hard for the poor to obtain...
...black work force around Johannesburg could shatter or at least severely damage the South African economy. No such strike has happened, because black workers are afraid of reprisals and because they cannot afford a strike, living as they do mostly just above poverty. The government may well keep the lid on for many more years or even decades. As one white editor says, "Soweto riots could just become an annual event." And yet the present situation-a continuing white sense of living under siege, a continuing black fever of resentment-cannot go on indefinitely without serious damage to the country...
...base increases scheduled for employees; the limit would rise to $17,700 next year and $24,000 in 1979. The wage base on which the employer pays taxes would also increase to $24,000 in 1979, but then jump to $37,000 in 1980; in the following year the lid would be removed entirely. That means that the employer would pay his half of the tax on an employee's full salary no matter how much he makes. Payments by employers into the system would rise by $7 billion to $8 billion a year. These increases would doubtless...
Carter will try to put a lid on hospital costs in two ways. First, he would impose a complex formula, using living costs and the G.N.P., to hold hikes in total hospital revenue to no more than 9% next year. More important, if it takes effect by Carter's Oct. 1 target date, the legislation would establish a nationwide limit on total capital expenditures by the country's more than 7,000 hospitals of about $3 billion next year. This is roughly half what they had expected to spend on new buildings, equipment and other major purchases...