Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These days the squad should find it soothing to know it played well at least for several moments of the contest. Relatively well, that is. The 2-18 squad stayed within striking distance, but could not maintain the level of play needed to clinch the victory...
Harvard, now 3-2 overall, lost the meet by less than three-tenths of a second Dartmouth's margin of victory in the two-mile relay. Going into the relays, the Crimson had led, 64-62, and needed to win only one of the relay contests to clinch the contest...
Even in the halcyon budget-cutting days of July 1981, the House found room in its heart for the "truly needy" Clinch River breeder reactor program, approving Reagan's request for $228 million in new construction funds. The fiscal 1982 budget included a 36 percent increase in nuclear subsidies, boosting the figure to $1.6 billion, and administration planners envision an increase to $1.7 billion for fiscal 1983. In addition, the president has called for "streamlining" the NRC's licensing process to allow 33 more plants to come on line in the next two years. He has also endorsed federal financing...
...politicians' commitment to nukes seems to spring from three sources. One is simple pork-barrel politics. Clinch River's two main backers are Tennessee's powerful Republican, senator. Howard Baker, and Congressman Lloyd Bouquard (D-Tenn.), whose district stands to lose jobs if the project shuts down. Another motive seems to be the romanticization of high technology, an irrational love of complexity for its own sake, that ignores nuclear power's evident flaws. This attitude is reflected both in Reagan's vision of remaking America into an "industrial giant" and in many representatives' fears that we might "fall behind...
...closest competition of the day came at the very end of the meet, in the final heat of the 400 medley relay, when Harvard touched out the B.U. team to clinch the event by four one hundredths of a second and set a new GBC meet record...