Word: clinching
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...regular season races to a close, Harvard holds a two-game lead over Yale in the loss column. Even if the Crimson should lose tonight, it could clinch the championship winning its last four games--three of which are at Bright Center. On the other hand, if Harvard wins tonight. Yale would have to sweep its last three games and Harvard would have to go under .500 the rest of the way for the Elis to grab the crown...
With number-one (that's right, number one) Harvard leading, 52-45, going into the 200-yd, breaststroke, the Crimson needed a victory in one of the last two events to clinch the season's most significant...
...usual the aquamen combined a group of talented veterans with a slew of inspired underclassmen in order to clinch the victory. Leading the way were Roberts and Miao Roberts posted a time of 9:22:09, his best of the year, to capture the 1000-yd. freestyle, almost 33 seconds faster than the Eastern qualifying time for that event. Mial placed first in the 200- and 100-yd. freestyle and later teamed up with junior Bob Hrachak and yardlings James Kornish and Carr Phillips to ice the Crimson victory in the meet's final event, the 400-yd. freestyle...
Bourbeau knotted the score 2:34 into the final 20 minutes, but Colgate scored two goals 58 seconds apart midway through the period to clinch the victory...
...companies that make money from their music. The whole business had topped off in 1978, when 726 million records and tapes were shipped to a rock-sotted world. The next year, the bottom fell out. Revenues plunged 10.2%. Not only was music caught in the general economic clinch; there was a feeling that everything had peaked, maybe even played itself out. Punk and new wave had created much press excitement, but never really broke through to a wide audience. Radio was hidebound by tightly formatted playlists: same sounds, same rhythms, in the same familiar rotations. Radio was the time-honored...