Word: clinching
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...rest gave both players a chance to warm up again, and it showed. Indoors, the pace of the points almost doubled. Hadzialic held to make it 5-4, but Choo rolled off four straight points on his own serve to clinch the title...
...binder and its owner are at the center of the action this week as President Clinton attempts to clinch a deal on peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The summit is a high-stakes attempt by the departing American President to force a "full, fair and final" settlement of such explosive issues as the return of Palestinian refugees, boundaries of a Palestinian state and control of Jerusalem--in short, all the issues dividing the two sides. Along the arbored paths of Camp David, over meals of steak and salmon or in their private cabins, every foreign policy heavyweight...
...Harvard beat Princeton, 23-22, in 1998 thanks to a halfback pass by Chris Menick. I saw Harvard shellac Penn, 33-0, to clinch the Ivy title in 1997. I saw Harvard score 52 points against Holy Cross. I saw the same Mike Giampaolo miss a 19-yarder and Rich Linden fumble on his own 15-yard line to cost the Crimson The 1998 Game...
...play stood, and Yale had a 24-21 home victory to clinch a share of the Ivy title. Harvard (5-5, 3-4 Ivy) ended a season beset with disappointments with yet another one. Harvard's five losses came on a combined 18 points...
...accepted." And with Harvard's record 16,500-plus rejections this year--including all of Van Nuys High's applicants--getting into Harvard isn't any easier, Kim fears. From the counseling office at Van Nuys, she says: "I'm asking you. What does it take to clinch the admission...