Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many Harvard students, the pitch works...
President Clinton -- while pitching most of his remarks to domestic politics -- kicked off the 34-nation Summit of the Americas in Miami with a pitch for Western-hemisphere nations to join a giant free-trade zone by 2005. "This is a magic moment -- let us seize it," Clinton told an assembly of summit organizers and U.S. and foreign business leaders, stressing that the "partnership for prosperity" would create jobs at home. U.S. trade officials admit that such a trade zone is most valuable in U.S. political terms for the moment, since draft language doesn't call for final international negotiations...
...Dartboard believe that different recruiting strategy might work better for both organizations. Perhaps tasteful flyers for door-drops could enhance students' appetites for donating blood and picketing abortion clinics. The Red Cross might even use some quotes from "Interview with a Vampire" for a deliciously topical pitch...
...offense struck immediately when senior tailback Bob Nelson took a pitch from junior quarterback Chris Hetherington and scored...
...much comment. He had concluded the day before that he was up against something bigger than he had previously understood. On election eve, returning from eight days on the road campaigning, Clinton had told Panetta about a man who had stopped him in Minnesota after hearing the President's pitch about the economy's improvement and the 4 million new jobs the Democratic Administration had helped create. Unpersuaded, the man told Clinton, "The problem is that every time ((Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan)) Greenspan raises interest rates, he takes money out of my pocket." In other words, Clinton complained...