Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liddy finally lifting his self-imposed lid? In a preface he explains that the statute of limitations has run out on the Watergate crimes; thus his story cannot now cause his former colleagues any legal problems. He explains that he has been persuaded that he "owes a debt to history." Besides, although he does not mention it, he still has to finish paying off a $40,000 fine and some $300,000 in debts to lawyers...
...together an 80-page program that provides for the evacuation of the town by road, rail, river and even, if it becomes necessary, snowmobile. Said Mayor Reid: "We can empty the town completely in 24 hours. All the folks out at T.M.I. have to do is keep the lid on for that long...
...with last month's Snepp decision, which backed the CIA's right to enforce its secrecy pledge on former agents, the new ruling is likely to help Government keep a tighter lid on its secrets...
Steel is at the crossroads. With relatively inexpensive imports keeping a lid on prices and a considerable portion of capital outlays diverted into nonproductive environmental controls, the industry cannot raise the money to build the efficient plants it must have to compete with foreign steel. Management, labor and the Government know it, and they are finally in agreement that steps must be taken now to harden and sharpen steel...
...newsstand, just south of the original, can be moved to facilitate construction on the concrete lid over the Red Line and the extension...