Word: cinching
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Prosecutors hoping that tapes of lewd phone conversations between U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds and Beverly Heard would cinch their case were thrown off when the 18-year old girl invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions. Her attorney explained her actions by citing worries that Heard's testimony might differ from what she said six months earlier, when she recanted accusations Reynolds had sex with her. Why she recanted is unclear. Charged withcriminal sexual assault,aggravated criminal sexual abuse, child pornography and obstruction of justice, Reynolds, a 43-year old Rhodes scholar, on Tuesday listened stone-faced...
Gelman erupted for 20 points and 10rebounds--season-highs in both categories--in atough 77-73 loss at UNH. The sophomore point guardhad numerous big plays all season, including asteal to cinch the win at Providence and clutchfree-throws to down Cornell in overtime...
...when that heart-and-mind contact is lacking, the best-laid plans can be upset. Also the best-laid tables. A February business dinner at Spielberg's estate in Pacific Palisades was supposed to cinch the deal with Samsung, whose proposed stake in DreamWorks had grown from $500 million to $900 million as the talks progressed. That night the guest list swelled too, to more than a dozen, and Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's actress wife, had to scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg...
...Iraq. "You think they'd be on their best behavior when the U.N. has their fate in their hands," a Navy officer said, "but no, the Iraqis do just the opposite." The feisty speech given at the U.N. by Saddam's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz seemed to cinch the vote against the Iraqis. A U.N. official commented, "The Americans could not have had a better stroke of luck than Tariq Aziz's speech...
...peacekeeping forces from other nations in the hemisphere arrived. But some Pentagon officials are leery of such rosy forecasts. "There are too many things that can go wrong to call it a cakewalk," a Pentagon official says, plainly peeved at suggestions that this military undertaking would be a cinch...