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...also puts them in an ideal position to pitch users the company?s alternative: Microsoft Passport, the one-stop "e-wallet" which has already been called an attempted "choke point" on e-commerce by none other than Microsoft?s chief rival, AOL-Time Warner (parent company of this writer, and developer of competing choke points...
...arrived in time to watch the Yankees capitalize on a Lou Merloni error in the top half of the ninth and finally score against a former teammate and the last person to pitch a perfect game, David Cone. With a one-run lead, Mussina took to the mound three outs away from the 15th perfect game in modern baseball history, the fourth in Yankee history, and the first in the 89-year history of Fenway Park...
...offers a wonderful plan for your life./Man is sinful and separated from God, thus cannot know and experience God's love and plan./Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin./We must individually receive Jesus as Savior and Lord.") Armed with this "spiritual pitch," CCC recruits could not only consolidate their faith but purvey it one-on-one like Amway. Once converted, more subtle souls often moved past the Laws. But, explains Tommy Oaks, an itinerant evangelist who has observed CCC on dozens of campuses, "Bright's like the guy who invented the crescent wrench...
...wallets are thinner, and Bush is presenting a balanced, Social Security-preserving budget that includes Clinton-sized spending hikes for two areas that Bush knows the public loves: defense and education. Beyond that, goes the pitch, it all went back into the ailing economy, via the tax cut. Anything else - meaning, anything else that busts the budget - must be pork...
...contract manufacturers started discussing a potential marriage three months ago. The hotel conference room where they met near the Phoenix, Ariz., airport was cramped and seriously lacking in air conditioning. Even the bottled water was too warm to drink as Randy Furr, president and COO of Sanmina, made the pitch for his younger firm, then worth $7.7 billion, to buy SCI, then worth $4 billion, and considered a pioneer in the fast-growing business of manufacturing tech hardware for name-brand companies like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia. After nearly a day's wrangling, Furr could not get Eugene Sapp...