Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuff dreams are made of--a Crimson sweep of the 5singles competition to clinch an early win over the team boasting the best non-conference record in the Ivy League...
...Bruins' seven-goal performance was the highest this year by an Ivy League opponent against the Crimson, who will look to clinch the Ivy title this weekend in Ithaca...
...Watergate-era revulsion at the global bribery excesses of such well-known American companies as Lockheed, Northrop and Gulf Oil. During the mid-1970s those companies, and others, made headlines almost weekly as sensational disclosures surfaced about their roles in paying megabuck bribes to high foreign officials to clinch deals...
...budget cuts also came under initial assault at a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee Senator Edward Kennedy waved a copy of a 1977 press release in which Stockman, then a Congressman, assailed the $3 billion Clinch River Breeder Reactor project in Tennessee as "totally incompatible with our free market approach to energy policy." Kennedy wondered why Stockman was not urging that this project be killed. Democrats suspect it was saved to keep Tennessee's Senator Baker happy, but Reagan is on record as favoring development of breeder reactors as a means of making nuclear plants more efficient...
...shorthanded goal to cut the Cornell lead to 5-3 at 10:38 of the third period. But the red-hot Cornell power play, which had already connected twice on the evening, clicked again at 11:53, when Geoff Roeszler gunned a slapshot past Crimson goalie Mark Whiston to clinch the victory...