Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second half as a result of his bad bone bruise, but the three touchdowns he put on the board before intermission, and a beautiful scoring drive executed by third-string QB Jack Riordan to open the second half--including Riordan's own 41-yard run--proved enough to clinch Harvard's second Ivy victory-(against no defeats) on the year, and raise the Crimson's overall record to 3-1. Harvard is in second place, behind Penn (3-0), in the league. And--further delayed good news--Allard is expected to be okay for next week's important Ivy contest...
...Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including a $500,000 chimpanzee colony for New Mexico State University. Not that the issue is just fish bait and monkeys. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker's notorious pork-barrel project, the $3.6 billion Clinch River breeder reactor, was voted continued funding...
Bowdoin still had to put another goal past Judge in double overtime to clinch a 2-1 win over the Crimson, but McLaughlin's tally was indicative of the frustration the Harvard booters, the 1981 Ivy and Eastern champions, experienced on Bowdoin's home turf...
...confrontation has taken place before. Rocky has made the star wealthy ($25 million from the first two installments), a leading man the equal of an Eastwood or a Reynolds, and a budding Hollywood business force. But his image as the boxer has kept Stallone's career in a clinch. His other roles, the labor leader in F.I.S.T. or the neighborhood loafer in Paradise Alley, attracted disappointing revenues and mixed reviews. After a moment, he turned to his fans, raising his fists and becoming Rocky for an instant, as if he were slipping into another skin. "You can break that...
Howard Baker seems the perfect Government representative. But when the cuts concern his pork-barrel projects, like the Clinch River breeder reactor, he is not asking as much of himself as he does of other Senators. Baker may be a shepherd in party matters, but he is a wolf when legislation threatens Tennessee...