Word: lid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...health insurance plan, designed to enable every American to have medical insurance regardless of age or state of health. Two days later he returned to the issue, this time as chairman of a Senate subcommittee that approved, with some changes, a high-priority Carter Administration bill to clamp a lid on hospital costs...
Nevertheless, on balance, the combination of third parties paying most hospital bills and the noncompetitive nature of hospital care seems to have forced costs so completely out of control that, despite the obvious risks, only the Government may be able to clamp on a lid...
...suggested ways to improve the Star's design, writing, editorials, special sections and allocations of manpower, space and money. A strategy committee considered the paper's overall position in the market. Says Reporter Frank Allen, 32, chairman of the strategy group: "We were supposed to take the lid off the bottle and think as wildly as we dared about what the Star could become...
Government efforts to keep a lid on prices are also failing. Many businessmen feel that some form of mandatory wage-price controls is inevitable, despite repeated protestations by the President, his chief inflation fighter Alfred Kahn and other Administration officials that no such move is contemplated. Thus corporations are pushing up prices earlier and higher than they ordinarily would as a hedge against being caught by controls "with their prices down." As a result, says COWPS Director Barry Bosworth, the Administration is tightening up on its price standards, which are becoming less and less voluntary...
...possible full-scale flight from the region? The first explanation came from NRC officials. They said the reactor had unexpectedly developed an 880-cu.-ft. gas bubble, which was compressed between the water covering the reactor's core and the top of its steel housing. Acting like a lid on a pressure cooker, the bubble was maintaining high temperatures and pressures. NRC officials warned that there was a very remote but frightening possibility that the bubble would grow big enough to block the flow of water. In that case, the temperature in the core could rise high enough (3,000?...