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...McCartney's reputation if the stuff had stayed on file. You have to be very good indeed to survive lyrics like "I know I was a crazy fool/ For treating you the way I did/ But something took hold of me/ And I acted like a dustbin lid." There are two collaborations with Michael Jackson, the wonder boy of mainstream soul, that sound peppy only by comparison with the rest of the record, which may be remembered as the album that asked (in Keep Under Cover) the question "What good is butter if you haven't got bread...
...Harvard offense, meanwhile, had little trouble converting costly turnovers into field goals. The Crimson nailed the lid on the victory with its accuracy at the free throw line when, in desperation, the Big Green fouled any moving thing that it could get its hands...
...poorly fastened lid on a lead container allowed the excess radiation to leak into a second container according to the NRC report...
...Administration's latest effort to clamp a lid on Government secrets would have been a secret in itself if its designers could have had their way. A national security directive authorizing wider use of lie detectors to plug leaks and ordering senior federal officials to clear speeches and articles about classified topics for the rest of their lives was signed by President Reagan late on a Friday last March. That is when bureaucrats head home for the weekend and Washington correspondents relax their vigilance. When the order was discovered by reporters-Congress had been given no advance notice-Justice...
...markets to us as much as we've opened ours to them"; for hawks, to use military might to keep the peace and project American moral authority around the world; for women, to win ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; for the elderly and sick, to put a lid on hospital costs; for blacks and minorities, to crack down on civil rights violators. Seeking to increase his already strong support among Jewish leaders, Mondale had earlier asserted, contrary to his old boss Carter, that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are legal. Glenn tried to sound equally pro-Israel...