Word: clinching
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...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...
Finally, realizing that his stonewalling was doing more harm than good, Mondale's aides advised their candidate to cite some differences with labor. He mentioned his opposition to the B-1 bomber, the Clinch River breeder reactor and the weakening of clean air standards. The examples were "small potatoes," conceded an AFL official. "They're not going to quiet the howling beast." The clumsy handling of the issue was a rare stumble by Mondale's smoothly efficient machine, which is being publicly tested for the first time in Iowa this Monday and New Hampshire next Tuesday...
...kind of look at this as a loss for us," said Mike Gilligan, Yale's acting head coach. The Crimson can clinch the title by winning three of its last four games...
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia--The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia rode flawless defenses yesterday into the face-off for the Olympic hockey gold medal, and the United States beat Poland to clinch seventh place...