Word: clinching
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Embarrassed Catholic leaders have tried to stress the basilica's importance as a bulwark of Christianity. But others say Houphouet-Boigny has more earthly aims: to use the Pope's visit to clinch a seventh successive five-year term in the upcoming presidential elections...
Harvard fatally wounded the Bruins from the Ivy race and mowed down the Big Green to clinch the Crimson's eighth-straight Ivy crown. Harvard also punctured ninth ranked Pepperdine--a win billed as "the greatest in the history of the program," according to Krass and other afficionados of Harvard tennis...
...Saturday, Yeltsin was narrowly ahead of Polozkov in a key round of balloting, but failed to clinch the presidency. More feverish politicking is expected this week. One thing is certain: Gorbachev will continue trying to position himself as the centrist alternative to what he called in the interview "crazies" like Yeltsin on the left and the hard-liners on the right...
...what dreams are made of--The Goal. Who can forget Ed Krayer's backhander slithering by Minnesota goalie Robb Stauber in overtime last year to clinch the men's hockey team's national championship...
...only did the Harvard women clinch the Ivies for the second time this season, but this weekend also marked the end of the Rainey era for the Crimson...