Word: batted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focus group session MTV held in Teaneck, New Jersey, during which the audience was given a peek at Frog Baseball, a short film by a then 30-year-old novice animator named Mike Judge. The group's response to the film, in which the boys take turns whacking a bat at a harmless amphibian, went way beyond a few thumbs up. "People asked to buy the tape right out of the machine," recalls Abby Terkuhle, then an MTV producer to whom Judge had submitted the film. "One guy wouldn't leave until he had a copy. It was then that...
...strict gun laws, banning all handguns larger than .22 cal. Prince Philip, who opposes the law, set off a national furor last week when he complained, "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean are you going to ban cricket bats?" The Prince has since apologized...
...time to step to the plate, Al. As in Casey at the Bat, the runners are on base, the stage is set--and yuda man. So far, as CEO of Sunbeam Corp., you've certainly not let shareholders down. But this ain't Mudville; it's Wall Street, and investors want to be sure you've still got some pop in your bat. Why not show them? Open your wallet and buy another $3 million of Sunbeam stock. Heck, make it $5 million. That's pocket change for a guy who just made $100 million in 20 months and insists...
...reportedly will stay in place until a successor is named. It's likely that more departures are in the works. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, a former Harvard professor, has been commuting from his home in Boston for months. Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena earned demerits for going to bat for ValuJet in the days immediately after its passenger jet crashed in the Everglades, but might stay in the job if Bill Daley, brother of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, doesn't get it. The White House reportedly would like to get rid of Janet Reno, but the highly popular attorney...
...like the World Series," she said, after the man at bat had popped up and she had a moment to answer me. "I just don't like all of that leading-up-to-it stuff...