Word: pitching
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Lots of batters have charged the mound after getting hit by a pitch, but when Detroit outfielder John Shelby went after Boston's Roger Clemens last week, the slugger took his bat along on the trip for emphasis. That's a big no-no. Shelby, who was tackled by the catcher, earned an ejection and may be suspended...
Agency executives can be forgiven if they jump every time the phone rings these days. At any moment, an enviable client may invite a pitch or a major chunk of their business may walk out. When New York's N W Ayer celebrated its victory last week in capturing the $30 million Bayer aspirin account, the agency was still smarting from the loss two weeks earlier of the $65 million J.C. Penney account. Advertisers are flexing their spending muscle more aggressively than ever before. Even longtime clients feel little loyalty anymore to their agencies. As a result, ad firms...
...times were right for it. Everyone was complaining that there were too few good roles for women in American movies -- especially roles that permitted their characters to make their own decisions, control their own destiny. In fact, according to Mimi Polk, Thelma & Louise's producer, the movie did not "pitch well" to studio executives: "The script was full of subtlety that was lost in a two-sentence description." Polk feels, as well, that had she and her partner, Ridley Scott, proposed two male stars in the lead, they could have got a budget heftier than the $17.5 million they ultimately...
...divergence will be pointed up at the conclusion of the summit conference of the G-7 (the Group of Seven major industrial and financial powers) in London on July 15-17. The group last week formally invited Gorbachev to meet with them immediately afterward. He will then make his pitch for massive aid, and the seven undoubtedly will press him for assurances of fundamental change. They probably will get unsatisfactory answers -- except in the unlikely event that they can persuade him to adopt Yeltsin's program...
Senate majority leader GEORGE MITCHELL is bucking to replace Dick Gephardt as GEORGE BUSH's Least Favorite Democrat. Mitchell's latest attack on the Administration's renewal of trade privileges for China as "immoral" and his strong support of the civil rights bill are part of his pitch for a White House run in 1996. "He takes a position the minute I finish speaking," gripes the President...