Word: lid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those CCs. When Charles Wang lifted the lid on his system at Computer Associates, corporate paranoia gushed out in torrents as employees blanketed the company with CCs. No decision was too small, no change too minor not to notify everyone remotely involved. "It had turned into the biggest cover-your-ass thing you could imagine," says Wang. "People would send these things just so they could say, 'But I copied you on that.'" Now companies such as SmithKline Beecham are tightening the spigot by encouraging employees to limit the number of CCs they send. At Ernst & Young, systemwide messages...
...homage and mourning now under way in China, all those currently holding senior office--and the many who are unimpressed by these leaders and would dearly love to serve in their stead--will be sharing at least one thought in common: How on earth will we keep the lid on all this now that Deng is gone...
...best seat in the house for Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" wasn't for sale: it would have to have been suspended directly above the piano. Since Previn was conducting and playing, he found it necessary to remove the lid of his $100,000 Bosendorfer Imperial, yet by removing it he ensured that all his glorious sound would travel straight up, not out into the audience...
...last year, the Americans argued that if there is evidence of illegality, the Scientologists should be prosecuted under existing laws. The Germans replied that, well, there wasn't enough evidence for a trial, but even so, their government "has a responsibility to protect its citizens." Washington agrees that the lid should be kept on dangerous movements but thinks Bonn is tightening such restraints far beyond worrisome Nazi-like groups. "This is all extralegal in our view," says an American diplomat...
...concerned that Lee's film will unnecessarily dredge up his segregationist past. "I grow a bit weary with people who were always his critics saying he has to spend the rest of his life apologizing," says son George Wallace Jr. The family is also struggling to keep a lid on a lengthy interview that Lee conducted with Wallace last year, centering on the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham that killed four young black girls. Wallace has turned down Lee's request for carte-blanche use of the interview. TNT publicity maintains that the film will "fairly portray...