Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the coffin reached Red Square, it was placed, with its lid removed, on a red-draped bier facing the Lenin Mausoleum. Three battalions of cadets from the three services stood at attention. Remarked the TV announcer describing the scene to a nationwide audience: "The most important goal of the last decade of his life was detente. Of course, he was deeply disappointed by the sharp change of policy of the U.S." After speeches by Andropov, Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, Academy of Sciences President Anatoli Alexandrov and a factory worker, pallbearers led by Andropov on the left and by Premier...
...done? Of course, but it probably will not be. Many suggestions have been made to limit political spending while still permitting citizens, businesses and special-interest groups to support the races of candidates they like. Among them: public funding of congressional campaigns, tighter limits on PAC contributions, a legislated lid on the TV time that stations can sell to candidates. But incumbents, many of whom benefit from their ability to raise and spend more than would-be challengers, are unlikely to vote for any such measures. Says Thomas Houston, chairman of California's fair political practices commission: "Oh, there...
Qaboos decided not to stop the maneuvers, but ever since there has been a tight lid of secrecy on the operation, and Saudi Arabia has persuaded the Omanis to put off the exercise until later in the year, partly in order to give the dust of the Lebanon crisis more time to settle...
...somewhere in the future. In May, when the board last met, members thought that the Reagan Administration's July 1 income tax cut would spur consumer spending and push growth to a 3.3% annual rate during the third quarter. In fact, scared consumers have been keeping a tight lid on spending, raising doubts about whether the economy will show any growth next month when the Commerce Department releases its preliminary third-quarter figures for the gross national product...
...Everyone I talk to says it [the rent board] is a biased board. The thing is I suppose it does have to do with what you think it's supposed to do." According to Polvere, the rent board" by its nature is a status quo agency it keeps the lid on rents" and trys to prevent the depletion of the housing stock, he says. "It's essentially a conservative--not in the political sense--agency...