Word: lid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came with a vengeance. Not only was the weather sweltering-temperatures hovered around 90 degrees all week long-but there was also a temperature inversion. Like a lid on a jar, a stagnant upper layer of warm air kept heated air below from escaping. And what air! The city's brisk winds stopped dead; the sky darkened. Oxidants, caused by the reaction of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons to sunlight, became a major addition to the city's usual outpourings of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and tiny particles of lead, asbestos and other suspended matter. Day after...
Central's costs soaring, while Government rate regulation kept a lid on fares and freight charges. (Last week the torpid Interstate Commerce Commission finally approved a 5% increase in freight rates that Saunders bagan begging for last winter.) In two years, the cost of a new freight car rose 37% and the payroll went up by 18%. Despite revenues of $1.8 billion, the railroad lost $56.3 million in 1969. The company fared even worse in this year's first quarter. Staggered by severe winter weather, rising local taxes, declining factory output, and strikes in coal and other industries...
...genuine long-distance swimmers, the tank suit to put a lid on it is White Stag's Speedo. The all-nylon suit, worn by all but one of the 1968 Olympic Gold Medal winners, can even be had with a racing stripe down the side. Speedo wearers do not even have to make the crawl from Dover to Calais: the suit looks authentic enough to get there...
...mentor, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who ruled for 31 years until his assassination in 1961. "He runs the country like a Florentine court," said a banker, implying that he is all too remote from the island's people and their aspirations. "The longer we postpone taking the lid off, the greater will be the explosion here." Others accused him of lacking imagination and concentrating on showcase projects instead of attacking basic problems such as poverty, educational shortcomings and land reform. In reply, Balaguer pointed to his record since his election in 1966, after the U.S. intervention. "Everything I promised...
...manager of motor hotels and graduate of the world's second most prestigious business school, when Sam Bollo, sitting at the head of the table nude but for a medallion on his furry breast and a feather in his black hair, when Sam Bollo had lifted the lid from the pumpkin and steam had escaped, he ladled up first off, with the other pungent insides already named, a whole soggy box of Crackerjacks...