Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tosches looks out the window with the neighborhood's secrets in his eyes. He takes a drag. "I can't answer that," he says, perfect pitch. Another character in the most gloriously twisted show in New York...
Irabu's first pitch--a fastball to Brian Hunter on the outside corner for a strike--was cheered loudly by the fans and inwardly by the catcher, Joe Girardi. "I was as nervous as he was," says Girardi. "But after that first pitch, which was right where I wanted it, I knew we'd be O.K." Irabu was perfect the first two innings, striking out four. He ran into trouble in the third, giving up a run, and again in the fifth, when he gave up another run and walked two batters to load the bases. That necessitated a conference...
...space with foreigners not legally entitled to contribute. But "it was the only time Huang ever snapped," a former party official told TIME. And as a result, the three men from the Bangkok-based CP Group slipped into the White House in early June in 1996 to make their pitch to the President about China trade. Government investigators tell TIME that before and after the encounter, wire transfers totaling $625,000 were sent from the CP Group and an associate in Bangkok into the accounts of two Huang fund-raising associates or their families. Was it just a coincidence...
Clinton Administration officials will soon fan out across the U.S. to convince Americans that NATO should be expanded. But left out of the sales pitch will be the fact that the President's proposal was one his aides fought over bitterly in the beginning...
...Prodigy. Later this summer the band will headline Lollapalooza along with Tricky, the most innovative electronic musician around. "Don't ever judge us by what you read in articles," says Maxim. "The only way you can judge us is to come to the show yourself." A solid sales pitch. The Prodigy may be pop stars...