Word: clinching
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...unanimous decision on Feb. 3, the committee, which is the ruling board of Boston's public school system, bowed to intense public opposition to its tentative decision to appeal, saying the admissions policies may not be strong enough to clinch a victory for affirmative action...
...Iraq are looking like tired heavyweights in a clinch, but there's no ref to pull them apart and tell them to fight on. U.S. planes Wednesday attacked an Iraqi missile site for the third time in a week, but no progress was expected from a U.N. Security Council consultation over the future of UNSCOM. "Everyone's waiting for Washington to send a signal on how it wants to proceed after the bombing, but we haven't done that," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The Security Council is split over sanctions and the future of UNSCOM, but diplomats...
...Harvard (10-3-1, 5-0 Ivy) will battle No. 7 Dartmouth (13-1-1, 5-0) tomorrow at 11 a.m. on Ohiri Field in both teams' most important match of the year. The winner will clinch the Ivy League title and the accompanying automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament...
Harvard, winner of 32 of its last 33 Ivy games, has been in a similar situation in each of the past two years, when it defeated Brown late in the season to clinch the Ivy title. Harvard is currently the three-time defending Ivy champion...
...looked like the Crimson's tournament was over, as Yale needed only one doubles win to clinch the match. But Jain and Magyera smashed the Bulldog's number one doubles team, Khanlarian and Obsitnik, 8-4. Next, McGinty and Curto topped Liz Oosterhuis and Kirsten Gross, 8-6 to tie the team score...