Do you want to successfully lose weight, quit smoking, or put a lid on your bad temper?

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He is already reeling from criticism that he was slow to put a lid on the pay furore at AIG.

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Turns out, trying to put a lid on whatever emotions triggered the crying in the first place might just make it worse.

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He is widely seen as the man who freed Eastern Europe from the USSR and put a lid on the Cold War.

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So he asked her a second time to cover up and also to put a lid on what he felt was verbal abuse.

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To put a lid on property speculation and plug the hole in municipal finances, China's property taxes will have to cover more homes in more cities.

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During World War II, again the Treasury pressured the Fed to put a lid on long-term interest rates, which again led to excessive money-printing by the Fed.

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The macroeconomic uncertainty surrounding the Eurozone crisis has put a lid on network spending, adversely impacting the likes of Juniper which saw its revenues and operating margins fall last year.

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Yet his priorities are different from those of his predecessor, Paul Martin, whose first emphasis was to put a lid on government spending and then, more recently, to cut taxes.

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The second spurt is occurring now, as the coalition government - which includes Conservatives, Socialists and the "moderate" Marxists of the Democratic Left party - has failed to put a lid on the crisis.

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Moreover, the oil industry is in private hands, so even if the government in Moscow wanted to put a lid on production, it has less influence over its oil companies than OPEC governments have over theirs.

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Turkey's army has put a fairly tight lid on Kurdish separatism, just as Israel has crushed two Palestinian intifadas.

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My father is a dumper: He likes to throw a lot of different things into the pot, put the lid on and bring the water to a roiling boil.

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