Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Billboard slogans proclaimed, A MORE OPEN CHINA AWAITS THE 2000 OLYMPICS. Colored flags flanked thoroughfares, and taxis bore BEIJING 2000 stickers. To reduce pollution, some areas were forbidden to burn coal. All this and more went into Beijing's giant pitch to the International Olympic Committee for the Games in the year 2000. A decision is due in September...
...middle of the desert lecturing three other mice about Satan in celebration of the bombing of the World Trade Center. Then the mouse goes on to say, "Now, brothers, what beloved symbol of the great Satan shall we strike at next?' And the rest of the mice pitch in, "By the beard of the prophet" and "Allah be praised." The comic strip ends with the mouse throwing a brick at a cat, which the author, for some reason, stereotypes as the Intifada...
Johnson has two collections of poetry and the language in Jesus' Son often has the feel of sudden poetry to it. His straight, pared down description occasionally swells, mid-sentence, to an intense and concentrated tone. Within the same sentence, he lowers the pitch again. The effect is stunning; life and language alike become the subjects of mind-boggling, lyrical leaps...
...decided by facts and revenues, for at its core are the more peppery issues of politics and fairness that have long made the "three-martini lunch" a hot topic. "A businessman often needs a congenial atmosphere away from the office in which to make his or her pitch," points out Jerry Berns, the 86-year-old co-founder of New York City's "21" Club. Moreover, it does seem unfair to penalize a hardware salesman showing a catalog to a client while sipping Sanka, yet allow a movie mogul to fully deduct a $3,700 ride on the Concorde...
...plan, it would be a waste of time to propose it if it cannot pass the Congress. A Democratic majority in no way assures success: even Budget Director Panetta gave the plan only a fifty-fifty chance of passing in something like its original form. That meant the opening pitch on Wednesday night was easy compared with the sales job that lies ahead...