Word: lid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CHESTS Lid closed on head or neck...
...numbers. Not all rivals for the fruits of education are convinced that such an invidious system would be fair play. Some black intellectuals who have a stronger faith in self-reliance have argued that competing minorities would be better off raising their own academic standards rather than clamping a lid on Asian-American industriousness...
Mulhern's top-corner snipe past a screened Israel put a pretty lid on the evening of hockey, but those 3,033 intrepid alumni and students that braved the cold and distance to reach Bright suffered through a game of pumpkin-pie consistency--thick and gooey...
Loss of the "control tower," as the Japanese press has nicknamed Ozawa, would be a sharp blow for the coalition and for Hosokawa, who depends heavily on Ozawa's intimate knowledge of political hardball in the Diet and elsewhere. "Every pot has its perfectly matched lid," says Tomoaki Iwai, a politics professor at Tokiwa University. "It is heaven's dispensation. They are one system...
...Nations is being determined in Somalia now. Only in the last few years has the U.N. had the strength and unity to attempt such large-scale operations. Concepts like humanitarian intervention are very much works in progress. Cynics and isolationists are just waiting for a failure to clamp a lid on future operations...