Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here's a free idea for some medical entrepreneur. Give the HMOs snob appeal. Call the thing Executive Health Maintenance. Add a few cheap frills. Change the sales pitch. "Tired of schlepping from doctor's office to doctor's office, waiting around in squalid surroundings, filling out all those forms? Come to Executive Health Maintenance. We'll take care of everything. Not only do we have the best specialists, plus in-house lab tests and pharmacy, all in one convenient location. We have fresh coffee and croissants in the waiting room, as well as a fax machine, current issues...
...Orlando does not know what it wants to be, it knows at least how it wants to behave: cheerfully, at all cost. Boosterism is almost a civic duty, with a Disneyesque tinge. The city's pitch for a National League baseball team included a promise to build not just a concrete mega-ballpark but an old-time, intimate "field." Orlando hopes to embrace mass transit, but an old- fashioned trolley line is getting priority over a modern elevated rail system. Orlando basketball games are not games but "theatrical productions," in the words of Magic manager Pat Williams. He spent more...
...glossy brochures of Kentucky pastures, Minnesota lakes, South Dakota prairies, Houston skylines and Indiana sunsets convey not who Americans are but what foreign investors want to see -- mainly people who are white, rural, nonunion, eager to work hard and unlikely ever to make any trouble. Sometimes the pitch seems meek and submissive. Listen, for example, to Mike Doyle, international development director of the State of Iowa: "Iowa has a lot in common with Japan. We like to promote the homogeneous relationships within Iowa. We are a morally conservative state that appeals well to Asiatic society. Iowans also revere their elders...
...worked out of three tough jams in the eighth, ninth, and tenth innings, quietly set down the first two batters in the bottom of the eleventh. And he had two strikes on McKennitt before McKennitt lined a 1-2 pitch into left field to keep the Big Green alive...
Following a Quealy strikeout and a Mrowka single, Hill picked up two more RBI's with a double. He would later score himself on a wild pitch to bring the count...