Word: pitching
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...another commercial example of this problem aired on a radio station that I was listening to over the summer. The ad, for efortress.com, began with audio of someone--South Asian, to judge by the intentionally distorted accent--leading a session of yoga. Then the efortress.com pitch line: Basically, they said, some things have to be slow. Your Internet service provider doesn...
...talk and speculation has reached fever pitch in Russia, amid the climate of panic generated by the recent apartment bombings. The authorities announced Thursday that police in the southern city of Ryazan had defused a massive bomb in an apartment building after residents reported seeing sacks unloaded from a truck with a covered number plate. But, says Meier, later in the day it emerged that the "bomb" was merely a pile of sacks of sugar. The bombs that are falling in Chechnya, however, are all too real ?- and Moscow may be on the verge of lurching back into its worst...
With his usual splash of ceremony, President Clinton set up in the Rose Garden on Thursday and hit the $792 billion slow pitch. He vetoed the Republicans? tax bill and ritually disparaged it as a measure that would "turn us back to the failed policies of the past" at a time when the economy ? read, his economy ? is running like a dream. And although part of the show demanded that Clinton grab some high ground with a call for compromise ? a rejiggered cut of, say, $300 billion "would be a good bill I would happily sign...
...also advanced beyond ? or, rather, never really included ? Buchanan's willful, calculated ignorance of the rules of economic and political success in the modern world. We are up to specifics, up to intra-system mavericks like Bradley and McCain pressing real plans for campaign finance reform, and beyond pitch-perfect radicals like Pat Buchanan, who play to the angriest elements of our electorate because they reliably come out and vote. The key to a successful third party is igniting the interest of those who think but do not vote, not pandering to those who vote without thinking...
...very next drive, Harvard drove all the way to the Columbia one-yard line but drew a delay of game penalty on first-and-goal. Now at the Columbia 6-yard line, Harvard called for a designed pass to Wilford. Menick took the pitch, ran right, and his pass, floating because of the wind, was intercepted by defensive end Chris Nugent in the end zone...