Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...house as an investment is a pitch that hasn't opened many doors lately. But today, home isn't just where the heart is; it's where the smart money...
...imminence of Underworld has been talked and written about for months. By now nearly everyone who cares about contemporary literary fiction has heard how DeLillo got the inspiration for the novel. Intrigued by the hubbub back in 1991 surrounding the 40th anniversary of Ralph Branca's fateful pitch and Bobby Thomson's subsequent home run--the so-called shot heard 'round the world that gave the New York Giants a playoff victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers and the National League championship--DeLillo went to the library and looked up on microfilm the front page of the New York Times...
Every minute the Harvard men's soccer team (2-1-1, 1-1 Ivy) spends on the pitch it becomes better. The players develop confidence, chemistry and cohesion. With each game, the Crimson gives glimpses of the team that has ruled the Ivy League for the past two years...
Susan Yeh '99 said she was helping with HRO mailings in Loker when one of Alan's friends came up to her with their pitch. She said she was taken by the sympathetic story and was glad to do "anything to help...
...King has 75% more beef than the Big Mac, an extra 12 grams of fat (yum!) and no soggy third bun in the center. Most important, it has cost just 99[cents]. Such a simple strategy--more food for less money--contrasts with McDonald's weird pitch for the Arch Deluxe (the "grownup" burger that has flopped so far) and its recent 55[cents] promotion, a complicated scheme in which customers paid 55[cents] for the Big Mac and certain other sandwiches when accompanied by the purchase of any size beverage and fries except...oh, never mind...