Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upped the laxmen's record to 8-4. They will close out the season with a contest on Saturday against Dartmouth at the Business School field. A win would clinch the New England championship, but the Nationals as still only a distant hope at best...
With the score 81-77, the Crimson needed to win the 4x400 relay to clinch the meet Brad Bunney got the squad off -to a good start with a very fast opening leg. Sprinter Jay Hudson took the baton and held onto the 50-yd. lead for most of the lap but just before he handed off. Northeastern's Mark MacKinnon made his move and cut the lead in half. That was as close as the Huskies ever got, though, as Bennet Midlo extended the Crimson lead and Dwayne Jones held on to give Harvard a comfortable...
Down 3-0 in the second set. Usher's second doubles team of Maria Pe and Debbie Kaufman rallied to within a game of Princeton's Susan Whitney and Jan Shelburne. It took the Tigers four matchpoints and dogged persistence to snatch the set 7-5 and clinch the team laurels for Princeton...
Baker's weaknesses as a national leader are in some ways outgrowths of his strengths. His affection for pork-barrel projects for the folks back home seems particularly inappropriate for someone trying to shepherd a budget-cutting revolution through Congress. The most egre gious example is the Clinch River breeder reactor, a costly ($3.2 billion) boondoggle that both Jimmy Carter and, initially, Ronald Reagan tried to scuttle. Baker was "in every direction" trying to win votes for this pet project, says Senator Lugar. Baker, a former member of the old Atomic Energy Committee, says he truly believes in breeder...
...Harvard men's volleyball team walloped Yale, 3-0. Saturday in the IAB to clinch first place in the Eastern College Volleyball League's New England Division and gain a berth in the league championship tournament...