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...Stewart allowed the Quakers seven hits in collecting a complete game win. Anointed this year's stopper, the senior remained in control throughout, yielding the three runs on a solo home run in the third and a walk, two sacrifices and back-to-back singles in the fifth...
...been keeping an eye on an object in its care known as the McNulta time capsule. The McNulta in question, a Bloomington man, was a Civil War general in the 94th Illinois Volunteers. The time capsule was an etched glass bottle, seven inches high and sealed with a broken stopper, containing several mysterious thin packages wrapped in cloth. A notification tucked into its base read: "Souvenirs of the meeting of the Society of the Army of Tennessee. Held at Chicago November 1879. To be kept unopened for 100 years...
...shaky political mandate also dooms his proposal for a tax hike to correct Japan's mounting deficit. The deficit, combined with a high inflation rate and a sharp drop in the yen, may have grave consequences for an already strained U.S.-Japan economic relationship. Japan has already begun to stopper its yen drain. These economic pressures will certainly curb Japanese willingness to liberalize import restrictions at a time when John Connally is bellowing about letting the Japanese sit in their Toyotas on the docks of Yokohoma. The only possible Japanese concession to American opposition prevails and cuts tax breaks...
Sweeper Peter Sergienko and stopper John Duggan combined with Lorenzo DiBonaventura to thwart any sporadic Ephman attacks. The improving Crimson midfield has recently kept opposition goals and opportunities to a minimum...
...playing .500 ball. The biggest cliche of the 1979 season is that the Orioles are a good team having a great season, and the difference is Weaver. After all, the team doesn't have a single .300 hitter, and, for all the talk of great pitching, only one real stopper--Mike Flanagan...