Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Brown nabbed a couple of buckets. Harvard put on the freeze. For the next five minutes the Harvard defense put a lid on the Brown net. Brown's spread offense, the only formation it had employed since the 10-minute mark, never really clicked. Meanwhile, the cagers went to the races, capitalizing on Bruin turnovers to break by the quicker Brown team...
...hard-working Deukmejian, who spent 16 years in the state legislature and four as state attorney general, promptly tackled the deficit by clamping a lid on all hiring of new state employees, banning out-of-state travel by state officials and ordering a 2% cut in operating funds that will mostly affect the state university system and state colleges. This will save only some $70 million, however, and Deukmejian almost certainly will have to raise taxes to balance the budget, as required by the state constitution. That will be politically awkward, since he campaigned on a pledge to fight...
...blur the distinction between savings and checking deposits. The account will require a minimum balance of $2,500, but it will have no interest ceiling, and depositors will be able to write an unlimited number of checks. Similar to so-called NOW checking accounts that currently have an interest lid of 5¼%, this latest innovation has already been dubbed the Super...
...tellin ya," he interrupted, "there's sompin crazy goin' on here. This old guy's runnin' aroun' here, he's flipped a lid or sompin. Damn Pinko. He's got a commune...
...Department of Justice has moved to let the marketplace decide how many TV commercials viewers will have to endure an hour. For 30 years the National Association of Broadcasters (N.A.B.), the industry's leading trade group, has operated under a code that kept the lid on both the frequency and the length of commercials. Although the code was voluntary, the members of the N.A.B.-which include the three major networks and their affiliates, as well as most of the independent stations-have, by and large, adhered...