Word: lid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bain is a weak scorer. "That's one of our problems," Bilik said, while Pingree is more of a swingman than a bona fide forward. Harvard matches up evenly against the Chiefs in size but it is doubtful Springfield can keep the lid on Tony Jenkins and Lou Silver...
...Vientiane agreement offers some prospects for peace. Since the spring, the Pathet Lao have sought to seperate themselves from their old Vietnamese and Cambodian allies. In Thailand, conservative students overthrew the pro-American ruling junta-- wonders never cease! And of course, the U.S. Congress has clamped a lid on U.S. bombing and enacted restrictions on Nixon's war making powers...
...move toward liberalization is designed to woo back much needed foreign investment capital and assuage European hostility to Greece's bid for full membership in the Common Market. With inflation running at 30%, Papadopoulos cannot hope to keep the lid on serious discontent unless there is a turnabout in the economy some time soon. Markezinis could help bring that change about. He is a palatable politician who was judicious enough not to attack the junta. He is also a brilliant lawyer, credited with having engineered Greece's postwar economic recovery in the 1950s when he served as Minister...
...honorable man. He makes a sound political decision, refusing to endorse an antiwar manifesto, on grounds that it won't do any good and will only irritate his constituents. Then he discovers, when a colleague with surer instincts successfully champions the antiwar cause, that he has put a lid on his career...
...Chairman Lynn Townsend last year got a 209% increase in total compensation, to $649,850; TWA President Forwood C. Wiser Jr.'s compensation went up 157%, to $296,298. Such in creases did not violate the guidelines; a company could give its chief an enormous boost, keep the lid on subordinates' raises, and come out with an average 5.5% hike for all employees, which met wage control guidelines. Now, however, the Cost of Living Council has come up with strict new guidelines that make for painful reading in executive suites...