Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the team's forecasted success has come sooner than most people thought. Going into this weekend, second-place Harvard can clinch the Ivy championship with consecutive wins over the other top-four league teams: Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown...
...took the Intifadah, the Palestinian popular uprising that began in December of 1987, to clinch Leibovitz's status as "seer." Israeli newspapers reported the daily incidents from the territories: pitiable, rock-throwing Arab youth and ruthlessly professional Israeli soldiers, together engaged in a macabre dance of death. Editorialists began to wonder how long the undeclared war could go on without taking a severe moral toll on the occupiers...
...last two years of her high school career, she played a pivotal role on her school team, starred for Connecticut Omni, a club team, and travelled with her regional soccer team, to France and England. Connecticut Omni won the national title in 1993, helping her clinch a spot on the American Under-19 national team...
Harvard went on to clinch the doubles point with a come-from-behind victory at second doubles by sophomore Gina Majmudar and freshman Mylin Torres...
...string of solid performances at various invitationals. It went 3-1 at the UMass-Amherst tourney, beating Brown and losing only to Metro-Boston, a team of former college stars. It went 4-1 at its own Harvard Invitational, beating a tough Princeton team to clinch the league championship, and again losing only to Metro-Boston. And it went 3-0 at the MIT Invitational...