Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boomer" Scott took charge in the bottom half of the frame, launching a Torrez pitch high over the right-center bullpen for what would stand up as the winning...
When Harvard player Jamie Chu, who started in midfield, fell to the ground in agony in the 18th minute, the referee stopped play and summoned Harvard's trainer onto the pitch. An obviously concerned Wheaton followed the trainer to check on Chu, which drew protests from Daniels, as the referee had called for only one member of the Harvard staff to enter the field of play. Wheaton was given a yellow card caution for his actions, at Daniels' insistence...
This served to enrich Knight even further. His consulting agreement with Molten was highly unusual and gave him more than the typical incentive to make his pitch. Along with a $7,000 monthly fee, Knight was given options to buy at least 40,000 shares of Molten, firm documents show. In an April 1996 letter awarding Knight more stock options as he was leaving to run the Clinton-Gore re-election bid, company president William Haney showed just how valuable he thought Knight would be to the company: "Our objective is to keep you...with us right up until...
...imagine the pitch meeting for this project. Or the nervous marketing meetings that follow. Better still, imagine yourself at the earliest possible showing of L.A. Confidential, watching alchemist-director Curtis Hanson (who shares screenwriting credit with Brian Helgeland) turn pulpmeister James Ellroy's brutal, bustling novel into something like cinematic gold...
Your story read like a pitch for recruits to the Mormon church. The assertion that Joseph Smith was "a simple farm boy" who was given tablets of ancient scriptural writings that were "taken up again to heaven" cries out for some investigative reporting. And if God speaks directly to the Mormon leaders, why did it take him until 1978, two decades after the start of the civil rights movement and 115 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, to reveal to his chosen people what most others already knew--that racism is wrong? LARS OPLAND Palmer, Alaska...