Word: clincher
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...problem confronting Menem. Legions of superstitious Argentines have become convinced he is cursed with a hex. The alleged evidence: several of his Cabinet ministers have died in office, and after Menem shook the hand of a driver before a powerboat race, the driver crashed and lost an arm. The clincher came when Menem showed up on the field with the Argentine soccer team the day before its World Cup match with Cameroon. The heavily favored South American team was then humiliated, 1-0. Menem has heard the talk that he brings bad luck and is said to be worried, since...
Harvard's defense then held the Bulldogs, and the Perry-Myers team went back to work. Highlighted by a 36-yd. pass from Perry to Adam Lazarre-White and four Myers ground gains, the Crimson drove 67 yds. to put the game away. Perry scored the game-clincher on another keeper, his fifth touchdown in the last four games...
...Cutlip, 36, a marble mason from nearby Irvine, found himself strapped upside down as the truck skidded on its roof at 60 m.p.h., sparks flying past his head like an acetylene shower in a metal shop. "That's it," he announced to his wife that night. "That's the clincher...
...clincher, of course, is that Bill once had a blind date with Janis Joplin. He's the man of the hour: a father figure, a sex symbol, and he's fighting for what's right...
...clincher is the Soviet Union's shortage of hard currency, combined with the Western art-dealing system's devouring search for new product. At last, modern art has a real party use: it brings in sterling, dollars and marks. Scores of Western dealers are swarming over the Moscow studios. They buy through the Ministry of Culture, which generally keeps 40% of the purchase price and passes on 10% to 15% to the artist in hard currency, which can be spent only outside the U.S.S.R., and the rest in rubles. Payment is always slow, and then there...