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...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...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Don't Take Me Out to the Ballpark | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Has the Bomb | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

That set up the match's deciding game, Lending 5-4, the Crimson broke serve again to clinch...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Scott, Engle Star at NCAAs | 5/24/1985 | See Source »

Dartmouth scored on a squeeze bunt in the top of the eighth, and then gunned down Harvard's Mary MacKinnon at the place in the bottom of the mining to clinch the victory...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Batswomen, Big Green Split in Finale | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...late game heroics followed the disastrous second quarter, as Adelphi outscored the dazed Crimson, 7-1, over the last 30 minutes to clinch an easy victory...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Laxmen Continue Slide, Fall to Adelphi | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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