Word: clincher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clincher, so far as convincing Bush went, was the fact that Dukakis was being deceptive about his past, trying to deny his liberalism, to mask the menace to the nation presented by his softness on crime and defense. If Ailes could make that case to Bush, then the Pledge issue, the Horton horror stories, the A.C.L.U. membership (clashing with Dukakis' nonideological pose), would make sense to Bush as defensive actions against the broad assault of Dukakis...
...Suffolk County legislature, the correlation proved decisive. Said Michael D'Andre, a Republican who switched his vote to support the bill after hearing about the Kaiser-Permanente study: "That was the real clincher for me. Would you gamble with your child?" Even so, the law almost did not pass. When legislators first approved the bill last May, several businesses, including highly computerized New York Telephone and Northwest Airlines, threatened to relocate out of the county or limit expansion. As a result, County Executive Patrick Halpin, a onetime supporter of the measure, vetoed it. Last week, the legislators overrode his decision...
...investment houses choose this moment to scale back index arbitrage? Wall Street insiders cite a variety of reasons, but the clincher seems to have been the threat of one of their biggest clients, Maurice . Greenberg, head of the insurance giant American International Group, to stop doing business with companies that continue to profit from program trading. If the firms hoped their announcement would head off further criticism, they were quickly disappointed. At Senate committee hearings the next day, former Treasury Secretary Donald Regan took time off from promoting his new book to urge suspension of all index futures trades...
...clincher is a quote by the 17th century Metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell, which presumably illustrates the regal yet intrepid image of the man for whom the car is designed. (That the ad is meant for men is clear. Women are often called a variety of things, but we're not usually dubbed "princes"). The quote reads in part, "Society is all but rude/To this luxurious solitude...
Fetisov then scored the clincher when he sailed in from the blue line, split the U.S. defense and put a backhander past Chris Terreri with 2:01 left...