Word: lids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agency, Sir John Jones, 62, was doubtless shocked to find his picture, partly blotted out by government edict, in London's Sunday Times. A few days later, a national television audience got an unprecedented look at MI5's internal operations in a controversial documentary. In short, last week the lid was blown off Britain's venerable intelligence establishment. The reason, according to Liberal Party Leader David Steel: "The secret state is out of & control and democracy is threatened...
...students ought be interested in the succesful resolution of sexual harassment problems), to lead the victim through this maze of procedural obstacles, bringing him or her through the experience emotionally and academically unscathed. The Pandora's box of sexual harassment has been opened: let not the University slam the lid shut once again...
...tanning machines, however, block out most of the sunburn-linked beta rays (UVB) in favor of alpha rays (UVA), which promote a more gradual tan. The most popular device for soaking up UVA is a clamshell-like tanning bed. The customer lies down on a Plexiglas surface, closes the lid and relaxes as lights from above and below bake him to a golden brown...
...leak in a chemical plant in Bhopal that killed more than 2,500 people, Indians were stunned last week by yet another national crisis. This time the bombshell was the exposure of an espionage network that had penetrated to the highest reaches of the government. Before clamping a tight lid on details of the investigation, India's youthful new leader, Rajiv Gandhi, whose Congress (I) Party won a sweeping majority in national elections only a month ago, gravely informed Parliament that the country's security had been compromised by a spy scandal that he characterized as "the most serious ever...
There was so little else to do. The few U.S. aides who ventured out of their suites into restaurants were mobbed by news-starved reporters. In all, 920 correspondents and technicians were accredited at the talks. Yet, as ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel joked on air before the information lid was finally lifted, "it might be said that never have so many been sent to watch so few to learn so little...