Word: pitching
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Moving on to California, Bush defended high levels of peacetime defense spending as, in effect, a make-work jobs program -- an effective pitch in a state with a large aerospace industry. But once again, the President's timing was unfortunate. He arrived just as a newly published statewide poll put him 34 points behind Clinton, the most lopsided margin in that state's polling history. Then Bush's message was overshadowed by the release of a new economic report showing that gross domestic product grew only 1.4% in the second quarter -- half the rate of the previous quarter. Even Bush...
Despite the official secrecy that cloaked the deed, an archive of accounts by both participants and eyewitnesses survived. Nicholas and his wife Alexandra had from adolescence to the last hours of their lives kept diaries. The intimate story of their marriage, its intense emotional pitch and devastating political consequences, is told largely in their own voices. The regime that took their lives also believed in recording the minutia of its terror. Glasnost gave Radzinsky access to information that had long been locked away. Radzinsky discovered a folder headed "File on the Family of Former Tsar Nicholas the Second...
...fact, the Perot camp had realized for weeks that a three-way race could push the decision into the House and discussed that possibility. Further, Bill Clinton's pitch and program today differ only in nuance from what he and some of the other Democrats were saying as early as January, before Perot promised to wage "a world-class campaign" if volunteers succeeded in their petition drives...
...American Utopia? Lately it's a dream that was, a twilit memory of the golden age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promise of paradise regained has become a key to the Democratic Party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U.S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor is going to keep growing. No fiddling with...
...wronger and wrongest are the whitest black people ever seen off the set of The Cosby Show. This is high-class soap opera, and the big, unstated joke is that the soap is Ivory. That may be why Pocket Books just bid $2.64 million for paperback rights. The subliminal pitch, a home truth for gender warriors of all colors, is that buppies are just as baffled by their disconnected lives as are their tight white cousins...