41.   Across Britain, as in most other European countries, local leaders are struggling to keep a lid on the simmering tensions.

42.   After two years of steep spending increases, Pataki has vowed to keep a lid on spending in the next fiscal year.

43.   Bustamante accused Gramm of pressuring Commerce Department officials to keep the lid on the agreement until he could take credit for it.

44.   But a difficult task has been made even harder by disagreements over how best to keep the lid on boiling tensions.

45.   But a dismal overall outlook for Japanese corporate earnings, coupled with lower expectations for economic growth, will only keep a lid on Japanese equities, analysts said.

46.   But director Paul Bogart keeps the lid on his urge to remember when.

47.   But anticipation of increased soybean crop estimates in the USDA report kept a lid on gains.

48.   But instead of keeping the lid on the past, this has stirred new interest among younger French about what really happened here in the war.

49.   But then you always have to keep a lid on that energy when you get your chance.