Word: clincher
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...would deposit the appropriate amount of rare metals with a Swiss bank. Reaching under his coat, the former colonel extracted a sheaf of papers. "Here is a suggested contract. This way, it isn't reported to Moscow as an export sale, which avoids certain bureaucratic problems." Then came the clincher: when the deal was completed, the company that had received the development loan would be allowed to go bankrupt, and my companion would collect the "collateral" -- the rare metals -- from the Swiss bank...
...then he tallied the game-clincher, which came just over three minutes after Dan Dufresne's first goal of the year had pulled Cornell within 4-3. Fitting that he scored from his knees, for Martins' immense talents deserve a genuflection every now and then...
...what looked to be the clincher for Harvard came only three seconds shy of the second-period buzzer. Gustafson took a loose puck from Big Red defenseman Steve Wilson and top-shelved it past Skazyk to make it a three-goal margin...
...clincher, of course, is the fact that at this moment, waiting in line for Harvard police positions are men and women ready to work for current wages. Obviously, the staff has no idea what it means when they speak of officers being "rewarded accordingly...
Three years into the country's heart-wrenching drive to reinvent itself -- and hours after a hard-line coup attempt -- Russians found themselves last week swapping expressions of political drift. "It could have been worse," has long been a favorite conversation clincher among Russians. Last week it was also true. If the rampaging gangs of fascists, communists and nationalists had managed to take over in the Kremlin, the world would be staring at them, fearful about the guns they were so willing to use and about the immense nuclear arsenal at their disposal...