Word: lid
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That puts the G.O.P. in a major quandary. Putting a lid on Medicare and its $90 billion sister program, Medicaid, represents the Republicans' best hope for achieving much of the $1.4 trillion in savings they must find if they are to balance the budget and pay for tax cuts. But over their April recess, G.O.P. polls began showing that people are just as protective of Medicare as they are of Social Security...
...that [New Yorker Poetry Editor] Alice Quinn took that poem when she did. To my knowledge, there had never been a poem like that in the magazine, that dealt so explicitly with what was then considered a gay experience. That was an extraordinary fact. Now, with Tina Brown, the lid is very much off and there's no measure of censorship...
...tales to support their antigovernment agenda. Environmentalists have been sounding the alarm about such so-called horror stories for years, but tragically, these spurious accounts are being recycled into policymaking, and in some cases the falsehoods are retold even after the truth is known. Thank you for blowing the lid...
According to Cambridge preservation plannerSally Zimmerman, "We would acticipate there beingmore proposals coming forward on demolition inthat rent control is no longer in place. Rentcontrol laws kept a lid on demolition across thecity...
Constitutional rights aside, the government often feels pressure to put a lid on activities that are seen as antisocial -- even when the laws don't directly address such conduct. In the LaMacchia case, civil libertarians were disturbed at what they saw as strong-arm tactics: an attempt to mold criminal law according to what the Justice Department wanted. Judge Stearns, in his decision to dismiss the case, suggested that it was up to Congress to amend the copyright laws if it wanted to encourage this sort of prosecution...