Word: clincher
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...third game was not nearly as hotly contested, as Duboc jumped out to a 3-0 lead and closed Eyre out with six consecutive points for the 9-2 clincher...
...million on roads and airports around Fayetteville over the past decade. Cities like Fort Myers and Santa Fe, N.M., offer tax-abatement packages to businesses big and small in exchange for creating jobs. So do lots of places, including big cities. That's why livability is often the clincher...
Then, for the clincher, Bush must be bolder than Blair and drop the two most difficult words in politics. He must apologize directly and without equivocation before the cameras. By casting his use of now-discredited intelligence as an honest mistake, Bush could caricature himself as a judicious President forced to make do with limited information...
...he’s been leaned on more and more heavily by Walsh. Going into last weekend’s series with Dartmouth, Walsh put Ronz on call for emergency relief duty, an honor reserved for the John Birtwells and Ben Crocketts of years past. Then, after the division clincher, the Crimson skipper confirmed the obvious, calling Ronz the most effective of Harvard’s pitchers right now and all but naming him the No. 1 starter for the Ivy League Championship Series against Princeton...
Harvard quickly added to its overall lead with singles victories by Riddell (7-5, 6-2 at No. 2) and Chu (6-4, 6-4 at No. 3). Nguyen followed with the clincher, a 6-1, 6-1 trouncing of Rohan Saikia...