Word: clincher
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Free Throw the Clincher...
...then came what looked to be the clincher--a Hobey Baker Special from Captain Ted Drury. Starting from mid-ice, knifing through two defensemen, forehand-backhand stickhandling, finally slipping the biscuit under Skazyk...it was a world class goal if ever there...
...potential clincher: Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has told the White House that the only way to make sure of Saddam's defeat would be once more to commit American ground troops. British military sources estimate that as many as 100,000 to 200,000 would be required -- and that if they had to be sent into combat, they would take far heavier casualties than last year. Moreover, this time the casualties would be all American: London and such U.S. allies as France and Egypt want no part of the reported scheme. More flag-draped coffins...
...clincher in Assad's decision to sit down with Israel may have been the way Bush explained the U.S. role. First get to the peace conference, said Bush; give Shamir his procedural points. But once negotiations begin, the U.S. and the Soviets are committed to follow through to a comprehensive settlement. Washington's foundations for the settlement, Bush reiterated, are Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, which call on Israel to trade land it has occupied since 1967 for security guarantees from the Arab states. In the U.S. view, the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem...
...clincher came last month, when U.S. intelligence satellites picked up radio transmissions from the bunker, sending orders to Iraqi military units in the Kuwait theater of operations. Missing from the accumulated evidence were any photos of civilians entering the bunker at night in search of safety. American officers say they assumed that civilians were being kept out because it was a military security area and the wire-mesh fence was there for that purpose...