Word: clinching
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...video conglomerate to be called Fox Inc. The company will have three divisions: the 20th Century-Fox film studio, a Fox station group comprising Murdoch's own six outlets and a Fox television network to sell programming to independent operators not affiliated with ABC, CBS or NBC. To clinch the deal Murdoch still needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission for his purchase of the TV stations. The agency's vote, scheduled for last week, was postponed because of protests from public interest groups that have asked questions about Murdoch's financial condition and his programming plans...
...Cardinals defeated the Dodgers, 7-5, yesterday to clinch the N.L. pennant. In the A.L., the Royals shot an all-bird Series by trouncing the Blue Jays...
...that Streep and co-stars Sting and Tracey Ullman are able to break through the film's hard crust of mediocrity is a tribute to their collective talent and bravura. Brilliantly manipulating a spectrum of emotions from pastoral innocence to manic depression to pulsating sexuality, Streep may very well clinch the third Oscar of her career as the little--lost--activist. Once again, her most appealing characteristic is her chameleon-like control of facial expression. In one of the film's most fleeting but poignant moments (and probably the only one in which Baker's off-the-wall pacing...
...With Cleveland just 32 games out, they might catch the Toronto Blue Jays by next June. And fifth place Milwaukee is just a score away from catching them (Well, at least Cleveland might catch Milwaukee by September). The second place Yankees, a mere nine games out, could easily clinch it if the Blue Jays decide to go into the real estate business...
...reprocessing plants to extract plutonium from used reactor fuel are located or planned in France, Britain, West Germany, Japan, India and the Soviet Union. Programs involving breeder reactors are under way in the Soviet Union, India, France, West Germany and Japan. (In 1983, the U.S. canceled its $4 billion Clinch River breeder facility, located at Oak Ridge, Tenn., because of long construction delays, steep cost increases and a declining need for additional nuclear power installations...