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Before he knew it, Horne had dropped three three-all games and was down 4-1. He managed the most impressive comeback of the afternoon, and won the set 6-4 to clinch the match...
...post-season scheduling dictated otherwise, and the Crimson traveled to Princeton University this weekend only to clinch the cellar position in the Ivy League tournament by losing Saturday's consolation game to Yale...
...good showing on June 3 would be a big step--perhaps the final step--toward garnering the 997 delegate votes neccessary to clinch the Republican nomination or the 1666 delegates needed to become the Democratic nominee. But June 3 is a long way off, especially in the world of presidential politics. Even more remote are the speeches, slogans, revelling and backroom politicking of the July Republican national convention in Detroit and the August Democratic encore in Madison Square Garden. With dozens of primaries and caucuses between now and then, November seems awfully far away...
...plutonium than is "burned" during the nuclear cycle. The danger is that plutonium, if it winds up in the wrong hands, can also be used to make nuclear weapons. For this reason President Carter is opposed to the construction of the experimental fast-breeder on the bank of the Clinch River in Tenn. Skeptics argue that Super Phenix, which will cost $1.5 billion-a conventional reactor costs $1 billion-is too expensive. But the plant's builders, a French-Italian-West German consortium, counter that the fast-breeder's electricity will be competitive with oil-generated power...
Although she assembles an array of epic material, Le Guin does not venture much past the borders of the lyrical. The novel thus seems a little too modest for its own good. It concludes with a conventional clinch, boy and girl returning to a real world now much nicer than before, that undercuts the stern logic of initiation and quest. Like many would-be heroes challenged in first combat, Hugh is wounded; unlike them, he heals easily. Despite this tentativeness, The Beginning Place demonstrates what readers of Le Guin's highly praised science fiction have known for a long...