Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simple at first to pitch the deal to congressional Democrats, who thought Clinton had given up too much in tax cuts and got too little in return. More than half the 206 House Democrats issued a letter to Clinton to make sure he knew about "our deep concern about the tax cuts being considered." So in meeting after meeting last week, Administration officials were insisting that the deal was good for Democrats. The President, they said, had delivered on his promise to protect sacred social programs while increasing spending on education, the environment and children's health care. The White...
...just felt I was in the zone," Kessler said. "I struck out on two bad strikes in the first and I got upset. Then I started making good contact on every pitch...
...soul. She taught me to read, then drove me around town to show off my talents to her friends. She bought me caramels--the good, chewy ones--with the last of her Social Security check. She never liked sports but nevertheless drove 200 miles to watch me pitch--and lose--the Little League state championship. Her pep talk afterwards soothed my battered...
...There aren't enough Harvard students to support a commercial radio station, so we can't pitch ourselves exclusively to Harvard students," he says. "Instead we have to compete in the Boston commercial radio market...
...first place women meet today's Army is not at boot camp but in America's clean and well-lighted recruiting stations, where teenagers go to get the military sales pitch. When 18-year-old Carissa Schaper walked into one last year in St. Peters, Missouri, she thought she was safe. But as she later told an Army investigator, she was taken aback by what she saw and heard. "It's not a question of whether we can get you into the Army," she was told on her second visit, "but can the Army get into you?" The recruiters seemed...