Word: lid
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...search for a successor to President Derek C. Bok enters its final stages, the eight-member committee continues to keep a nearly airtight lid on information about the status of the search...
...despite the appearance of openness, the committee has kept an airtight lid on information about the status of the search, and the process has been sharply criticized by watchdog groups and some students...
...painful but necessary economic reforms. But it is beginning to get impatient. Unfortunately, that is occurring at a time when politically things are not the best. All kinds of demons are appearing -- nationalism, anti-Semitism and populism. I understand this is a time of transition. But lifting the lid from a pot where a new dish is being cooked may not be a good idea...
...them to lay out in sharp detail the changes that cause a cell to go from normal to malignant. "The cancer cell used to be a black box," says Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., physician in chief of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "But the lid of the black box has been opened, and we can see the wheels turning inside." The "wheels" are genes that regulate growth. Some, called oncogenes, activate the process of cell division; others, known as tumor- suppressor genes, or anti-oncogenes, turn the process off. In their normal form, both kinds...
While keeping the lid on personal liberties, the House of Saud has also held on tightly to its monopoly on power. Within the Saud clan, which includes 5,000 princes, there is considerable consultation. Still, government is a closed shop. There is not a single elected official and not a single political party...