Word: lid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reserve Board governor, said recently. Sure, China's infrastructure and consumer-spending boom have bolstered demand for commodities. China purchased some 20% of the world's copper last year, compared with 5% in 1990. This demand pushes prices up, but China's capacity is expanding in step, keeping a lid on the price of finished goods. "China works both sides of the equation," says Alan Ruskin, managing director of 4Cast Inc., an economic-research firm. Expect the Fed to apply the brakes if needed. Says Ruskin: "Today companies have more confidence in the inflation-fighting credentials of central banks...
...knew how talented she was,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “We shouldn’t have let her get 30 points. We should have put a lid on that a little sooner, I guess…not that you can. That’s a player who can get her shot when she wants...
...whipped open a drawer and pulled out one of those little spring hand exercisers. And then he reached into the same drawer with his other hand and pointed to a small paper box the size of a jewelry box. With one hand pumping, smiling broadly, he lifted the lid. The music started, filling the vast room. It was Sousa, loud and brassy and in your face: Stars and Stripes Forever...
...raids on houses of suspected insurgents and former members of Saddam's regime in Adhamiya. In July, Colgan led the platoon on midnight searches of a Muslim cemetery next to the Abu Hanifa mosque, where insurgents were believed to be storing weapons. Colgan instructed the soldiers to bang the lid of each crypt; if it sounded hollow, the troops hoisted the 250-lb. granite slab and looked inside. On its second graveyard hunt, on July 4, the platoon netted a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and 31 RPGs. A later search turned up a stash of the explosive C4. Afterward...
...knew how talented she was,” Delaney-Smith said. “We shouldn’t have let her get 30 points. We should have put a lid on that a little sooner, I guess…not that you can. That’s a player who can get her shot when she wants...