Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action yesterday. Yale swept Penn 9-8, 5-4 to keep a modicum of pressure on Harvard. The Elis are 10-6 in league action, a game behind the 8 2 Crimson Cornell (86) and Dartmouth (45) are the only other teams with lewer than seven losses. Harvard can clinch its second straight EIBI, title by going 5 3 the rest of the way, as long as Dartmouth loses one of its nine remaining games (a virtual certainty). In an effort to eliminate Cornell, the Crimson will probably start juniors Charlie Marchese and Jeff Musselman when the Big Red comes...
...large Hispanic vote tests his ability to make his "rainbow coalition" a bit less monochromatic than it has been so far. For Walter Mondale, Texas- with 169 delegates at stake-offers a chance to widen his delegate lead over Hart (1,114 to 590, with 1,967 needed to clinch the nomination) and to prove his electability outside of Big Labor's shadow...
Certainly, Harvard's ability to keep the explosive Minutemen off the scoreboard for the entire second half proved the difference. With Greeley and Bambi Taylor double teaming UMass superstar Pam Moryl, the Minutemen failed to pose a challenge to the inspired Crimson, who used more soul than talent to clinch the victory...
...locked in an angry "yes-I-did, no-you-didn't" clinch until Jesse Jackson, who had skillfully been playing both spoiler and referee, stepped in. He clucked that the quarrel would be called so much "rat-a-tat-tat" and dismissed it as a "kinship struggle" between two men "going in the same direction...
Hart expects to have twice as much money as Mondale to spend on advertising in New York. Hoping to clinch the nomination early, Mondale spent more than $10 million in 1983; he risks bumping up against the $20 million federal spending ceiling by the time the campaign rolls into its last showdown, the California primary on June 5. Hart, who only raised $1.5 million before New Hampshire, raked in twice as much in the past month. Mondale must also worry about Jesse Jackson siphoning off black votes that would otherwise go in his column. Jackson drew 79% of the black...