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...were doing things Coach mentions all the time, making adjustments," Larocque said. "[Mattern] had been starting everybody off with fastballs, so I was gearing up for one on the first pitch...
...that foreign women be properly warned about the potential for exploitation. Leni Marin, of the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco, says some matchmakers market foreign women as obedient and submissive. "If you're obedient, then you're a willing sex slave," she says, or so the pitch suggests...
...Angeles bungalow they're temporarily sharing. Secrets are revealed, life choices are examined, change is attempted. With passion and humor, Grant's sinewy off-Broadway drama digs deep into the souls of characters whose problems are all too universal. An appealing cast performs with perfect pitch...
...They were the first to discover that a long, narrow wing shape was the ideal architecture of flight. They figured out how to move the vehicle freely, not just across land, but up and down on a cushion of air. They built a forward elevator to control the pitch of their craft as it nosed up and down. They fashioned a pair of twin rudders in back to control its tendency to yaw from side to side. They devised a pulley system that warped the shape of the wings in midflight to turn the plane and to stop it from...
...years, astronomers had noted that light from the nebulae was redder than it should be. The most likely cause of this so-called red shifting was motion away from the observer. (The same sort of thing happens with sound: a police car's siren seems to drop in pitch abruptly as the car races past a listener...