Word: pitching
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HAITI: Fever Pitch...
...point of no return," the aide said. "It's a serious situation but not a crisis." If those words were intended to mean that perhaps sanctions wouldn't be necessary, they were yet another example of the Clinton Administration's difficulty in getting the tone and pitch just right in the delicate dialogue of international diplomacy...
...PITCHING STINKS. "It's just bad pitches," says White Sox coach Jackie Brown. "A bad pitch is one in the middle of the strike zone," where the ball looks like a watermelon and the bat feels like a magic wand. In '94, entire pitching staffs are lobbing large fruit: the Minnesota Twins and Oakland A's + have earned-run averages near 6.00 -- an excellent mark for figure skaters, a pathetic one for hurlers. Yet the good pitchers are as dominating as ever. And the best, Atlanta's Gregg Maddux, is allowing a miserly 1.34 earned runs per game...
...warm pine walls save it from being dreary, impeccable modern. According to acoustician Derek Sugden, "Wood can be death unless it's stiff and thick. A softer grain will absorb low frequencies, which means there can be no richness in the sound." He and the Hopkinses decided to use pitch pine left around from Victorian warehouses. Waxed, it has a rosy glow. The modified horseshoe design solves the intimacy problem. Says soprano Alison Hagley, who plays Susanna in Figaro: "It's really more a circle than a horseshoe, and onstage I feel part of that circle. The audience...
...making a rare public pitch for the reform, McArthur traveled to Yale and released comments from a June 1992 report suggesting that the Business School was facing the possibility of financial crisis and "floundering mediocrity...