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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...
...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...
...with the Crimson's confidence and drive, the home team was unable to put the victory under its belt until the final matches. Through the lower and middle weight class bouts, Princeton managed to keep the scores close. Harvard merely overpowered the Tigers in the final four matches to clinch the victory...
...Dallas Cowboys fan. Even when I was little and lived in Wisconsin I was a Cowboys fan. I rooted for them over the Packers and lost a lot of friends, and I cried all night when Bart Starr leaped over that goal line in 1967 to clinch the NFL title for Green...
Sometimes two fighters come together in a clinch, and no one can break them. They are connected forever, hyphenated. Dempsey-Tunney. Graziano-Zale. They end up with one name. They end up, pretty much, with each other. Back in gyms and rings last week, refusing to go away-that is, stay away-Ali-Frazier is having a hard time ending...