Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Time Warner, launched the nation's first commercial cable-modem services in Fremont, California, and Akron, Ohio, respectively. Time Warner built its own service, dubbed Road Runner (after Warner Bros.' lightning-speed cartoon character); TCI joined forces with a Silicon Valley start-up called @Home. The basic pitch, however, is the same: Net access at speeds hundreds of times faster than today's conventional modems...
...good pitch. Weary Netizens know all too well that browsing the World Wide Web these days is less like surfing than like crawling: data drips like molasses onto your computer screen, sometimes taking several minutes to create a single page of text and graphics. If you want to download, say, a 5-minute rock video, you'll have time to catch a quick meal--maybe even a movie--while the phone line churns away...
Harvard plays a very controlled, systematic style emphasizing possession and playing the ball on the ground. Given the rough pitch at Columbia, Harvard's style of play could be upset...
COLUMBUS, Ohio: Taking a page from his successful cross-country bus trip President Clinton roared toward the Democratic National Convention aboard the "21st Century Express" with a re- election pitch for voters: "No U-turn. Stay on the right track." Clinton is on a four-day, five-state campaign before arriving in Chicago to accept the Democratic nomination. The trip, which will take him through West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, is designed to whip up excitement for a convention that promises few surprises. Each day the President will unveil a proposed second-term initiative to show...
...such questions as air and water pollution issues "and then get out of the way," Babbitt said. "We're not the experts. You figure it out." Look at the bright side. If federal officials aren't busy telling you what to do, they'll have plenty of time to pitch in and help - maybe even fight a few fires. Terence Nelan