Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helping his own effort to consolidate conservative support, based in part on his anti-abortion position. South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings detailed his economic-freeze policy in a forceful New York City speech in which he claimed that he could virtually balance the budget by 1988 by clamping a lid on most spending, including defense and entitlements, for a five-year budget savings of nearly $600 billion, while closing over $256 billion in tax loopholes. California Senator Alan Cranston found even some antinuclear activists slipping out of his fold, turned off in part by his advocacy...
...Crimson's resurgence finally proved too good to be true. With only nine seconds left, Holy Cross out smarted the Harvard press, and Reale drew a foul and made good on his trip to the line. Then, to put the lid on the game, Ferry picked up an offensive foul and Darren Maloney canned another two free throws to put the Crusaders up by five...
...McCartney's reputation if the stuff had stayed on file. You have to be very good indeed to survive lyrics like "I know I was a crazy fool/ For treating you the way I did/ But something took hold of me/ And I acted like a dustbin lid." There are two collaborations with Michael Jackson, the wonder boy of mainstream soul, that sound peppy only by comparison with the rest of the record, which may be remembered as the album that asked (in Keep Under Cover) the question "What good is butter if you haven't got bread...
...Harvard offense, meanwhile, had little trouble converting costly turnovers into field goals. The Crimson nailed the lid on the victory with its accuracy at the free throw line when, in desperation, the Big Green fouled any moving thing that it could get its hands...
...poorly fastened lid on a lead container allowed the excess radiation to leak into a second container according to the NRC report...