If the president can keep a lid on disgruntlement through the autumn, that alone would be an achievement to mark the midpoint of his five-year term.
The Macedonian government, headed by Slavs in coalition with Albanians, has told the West that it can hold the lid on ethnic tensions if, and only if, western aid keeps rolling in.
For the moment, its government can keep a lid on the financial system, albeit by virtue of financial controls and skewed incentives that were partly to blame for a lot of bad investments in the first place.
Not to excuse the decades of cruelty and backwardness under the Burmese junta, but maybe Myanmar, as its officials want it to be called, is just one more fractious place where seemingly only a strongman can keep the lid on.
If you can keep a lid on spending, the scale of the problem is cut in half in one and a half presidential terms without having to do much more than make sure the statisticians have a slightly quirky inflation model.
"If you can't keep a lid on it, don't go to it, " Challenger advises.
This is because while Apple can afford to keep the lid on every little detail about its forthcoming products, letting hype build up like a pressure cooker, Research in Motion is now in a position where it has to create that momentum itself.
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Whenever it picks up a can of drink to add to the ingredients, it examines the lid with a camera so that it can work out where to find the ring-pull.
It's a tin-can-shaped explosive covered with a lid of copper that turns into molten rock and pierces through armored vehicles.
Of course, Apple isn't the only company these days that can't seem to keep a lid on their movie download plans.
The machine is always connected, so users can continue to, for example, receive email even after the lid is closed.
Even in the books that seem to blow the lid off the greatest excesses in youth sports, there are moments that show why they can be a great place for the positive life lessons so many say they have.
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Yes, this machine stands out for its scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass lid and 14-inch 1, 600 x 900 display, but a high-res screen can be had for a lower price.
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