Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, which eventually stormed to a 9-0 sweep, only lost three sets in the entire competition...
...problem remained. While Ostriker's calculations showed that the forces released by an exploding galaxy could condense gas and dust enough to begin the formation of new galaxies, they were not powerful enough to sweep clean any regions as large as the largest observed in the sky. Then what mysterious agent had created the giant voids...
...second highest elected office in Peru. When the votes were counted up and down the Andean nation, Garcia's A.P.R.A. had unofficially won in nine of Peru's ten largest cities, a gain of four. Combined with the party's control of both houses of the national legislature, the sweep placed the charismatic, youthful President at the zenith of his power. Said Garcia: "There was a popular triumph here...
Although no one was hurt, last week's raid was one of the most dramatic attacks on the whaling industry in years. In one sweep it devastated Icelandic whalers and focused attention on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a militant international environmental group headed by Renegade Paul Watson, a Canadian. Sea Shepherd, which quickly took responsibility for the action, , claims that Iceland is illegally killing whales for commercial use. Indeed, the International Whaling Commission has issued a ban on commercial whaling through 1990, but it permits the killing of whales for scientific purposes. The Iceland government insists that taking...
...BELZBERGS. The most aggressive corporate raiders to sweep down from Canada, the Vancouver-based Belzbergs have made profitable runs on the stock of a dozen or so major U.S. corporations during the past few years. In 1984 they teamed up with T. Boone Pickens in an attempt to take over Gulf Oil. The bid failed, but seven months later the Belzbergs sold their $87 million stake in the company for $157 million. Last March the family threatened a takeover of Ashland Oil (1985 sales and revenues: $8.2 billion), collecting a $16 million "green-mail" profit when management bought back...