Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Encourage pluralistic media coverage. Conditions in El Salvador and our official posture have not encouraged adequate media coverage. Influential US journalists have been banned from the country by threats on their lives. Salvadorean government restrictions on visiting reporters have kept a tight lid on many critical events in the past six months. Informal signals to foreign desk editors during the electoral campaign discouraged their interest in the region...
...other top officials as a symbolic blow against inflation-and a survival tactic with their constituents. Since 1976 Congress has suspended or reduced automatic cost of living hikes for top officials. Salary increases for top federal jobholders are linked to those for Congress; thus, if Congress holds the lid on itself, no one else gets a raise. The main argument against pay increases, say their opponents, is that federal workers earning $50,000 to $60,000 a year are better able to cope with inflation than the typical U.S. family of four, whose median income is about...
...Crimson can keep a lid on Ortlip, they have a good chance of pulling off a victory. As Parretta said, "She is at the heart of our team, if she doesn't go, the team doesn...
...little box of mummified waves and shrunken coasts, peninsulas, planets, things set in compartments with an air of rigorous sentiment, each of the 21 compass needles insouciantly pointing in a different direction: it is the log of no ordinary voyage. (Even the map on the inside of the lid depicts an excessively remote coastline, that of the Great Australian Bight.) The earth is presented not as our daily habitat but as one strange planet among others, which to Cornell...
Gomulka flirted briefly with liberalization after he was named party boss in 1956, but then clamped a repressive lid on the country. Initially Gierek delivered on many of his own early promises, allowing Poles freer access to Western cultural influences and more opportunity to travel abroad. "For the first few years, the quality of life improved markedly in Poland," recalls one Western diplomat who served in Warsaw. "He enjoyed a measure of support that transcended anything during the Gomulka years." But by the mid-1970s, things began finance sour under Gierek too, as the country went heavily into debt...