Word: lid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former communist satellite nations, the red downfall has lifted the lid off long-suppressed ethnic nationalism, while prompting some people with no tradition of democracy to look for an alternative form of "strong" government. In the West, right-wing movements have inherited some of the generalized protest vote that used to go communist. Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front does well these days in the industrial suburbs of Paris that were long known as the Red Belt...
...southland's smoggy air largely results from poor atmospheric ventilation in the bowl-shaped South Coast Air Basin, where an "inversion layer" traps pollutants under a lid of hot air. In the daytime, ocean breezes waft pollution inland all across the basin. Then sunshine triggers a photochemical reaction that produces the highest ozone concentration in the U.S. Established in 1977, the district aims to bring Southern California's air quality into compliance with federal standards by 2010. If the agency falls short of that goal, Washington could take over. Given the terrain and the hodgepodge of local governments involved, only...
...collapse of the Soviet empire let the lid blow off Eastern Europe's ugly assortment of old ethnic hostilities. At the same time, for different reasons, countries in Western Europe are becoming increasingly aware of the pressures generated by their own changing racial mix. As their Muslim and African populations have increased, Europeans who for decades delighted in accusing the U.S. of bigotry and violence have discovered they are not nearly as tolerant as they thought they were...
...born," says Maaz, head of the department of psychotherapy at Deaconess Hospital in Halle, a dingy industrial city near Leipzig. "The authority of the father was replaced by the authority of teachers and then by the authority of the state." The result is a society of spiraling violence. "The lid is off," says Maaz, "so now the repressed violence can escape. It will get worse because of new social problems -- a crisis of identity, of confidence, of authority and of security...
...assets overseas and to permit the export of $1 billion worth of Iraqi oil. The government says it must have the money to purchase food and other essentials. But the U.S. and Britain remain skeptical, $ insisting that Iraq more clearly demonstrate its needs. They are trying to hold the lid on sanctions to force Iraq's compliance with the other cease-fire provisions and to put pressure on Saddam. The Chinese and Soviets are inclined to be more merciful. That division promises to make the Security Council's periodic review of the sanctions, scheduled every 60 days, a political tussle...