21. Yet the security police still try, energetically but with declining success, to keep the lid on . 22. High unemployment keeps the lid on inflation as labor costs are a key component of consumer price growth. 23. He had failed, one said, to " keep the lid on the brass ." 24. It took some 20, 000 U . S . troops to keep the lid on in Somalia. 25. The public sector wage increase agreed to yesterday will help keep the lid on consumer spending, analysts said. 26. Tame producer and import prices will likely keep the lid on consumer prices in coming months, economists said. 27. Central Bank President Persio Arida said the government spent dlrs 300 million to keep the lid on the dollar. 28. This year's party also has a small scandal that organizers are trying to keep the lid on . 29. The question is whether the anticipated slowdown will arrive soon enough to keep the lid on wage-inflation pressures. 30. SFOR's basic mission will be to keep the lid on smoldering ethnic tensions while remaining goals are pursued.
