Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This June," the promos blare, "the media's free ride comes to a screeching halt." That pitch can be seen on buses rolling down the streets of New York City, but it's not exactly a line to stop traffic. Didn't the media's free ride end years ago? Haven't we all grown used to the cycle in which every big news story, from Princess Diana to Bill and Monica, is followed by the inevitable how-the-media-screwed-up mea culpas...
When senior John Wells fanned the hitter on a nasty offspeed pitch to end the game, the yahoo stopped mid-sentence...
...Good pitch, kid," he said. "Way to take a little off the ball...
...plants; Durgha would pull them out and pass them up to her master. Like any good Imagineer, Comstock must not only talk to the animals (and plants) but also put his vision across to the bosses. As he says, "You gotta sell somebody on takin' some chances!" The sales pitch worked, and Animal Kingdom is also a Vegetable Kingdom, gorgeous and peaceable...
...allegedly flowed. The letter followed by a day what a Clinton-connected lawyer called the "diabolically clever" missive from Holder that put Starr in this box. Now Starr must either deny a conflict, or at least the appearance of one, and conduct the inquiry, or acknowledge a problem and pitch the matter back to the Justice Department, risking an outcry that his impartiality can be questioned on far more than this one piece of his wide-ranging investigation of Clinton. "He's hornswoggled," said a Clintonite...