Word: pitching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...During the winter - the middle of the Scottish Premier League season - a bitter wind whips up off the water, giving a biting edge to the snow and rain that often accompany Aberdeen's matches. The climate's tough on away fans, but it's even harder on the boggy pitch: last season, Aberdeen spent about €45,000 to maintain its field - a big sum for a declining club in a peripheral league. Little wonder, then, that when UEFA, European football's governing body, said last year that it was looking for volunteer clubs to test artificial football surfaces, Aberdeen...
...costs and focus on their core businesses, IBM believes it can, in the words of a money manager who owns the stock, "wrap its arms around customers even more" by supplying IT seamlessly, on demand, on a variable, pay-as-you-go basis. J.P Morgan Chase bought Palmisano's pitch, as did American Express. But it's not yet clear how many others will be willing to hand over more control to IBM. And fine-tuning the technology to accurately measure and bill customers for their usage will be no small feat. But if Palmisano can pull...
...managed to book actual celebrities, including Jeff Foxworthy and Carrot Top. Well, all right, they're actual celebrities compared with any you could book into your living room. It's both inspirational and creepy. Essany's dedication is amazing, but what he's dedicated to--transforming himself into a pitch-perfect rendition of a coolly ironic, middle-aged show-biz pro--seems a little unhealthy in a young man who should be fantasizing about doing things with Brittany Murphy other than interviewing...
...Omen To keep soccer hooligans from storming the pitch, Romanian club Steaua Nicolae Balcescu has proposed a plan to surround its home field with a heated moat filled with crocodiles
...race. With $60 million funding from public and private sources, Pillinger, 59, and his team of hundreds of scientists, engineers and programmers have managed to plan, produce and finance a 34-kg suitcase-sized probe virtually from scratch. There is more than a hint of national pride in his pitch. "We Europeans should not have our noses pressed against the window," says Pillinger, the author of over 260 astronomy papers and keeper of 21 superannuated dairy cows on his Cambridgeshire farm. "Our public deserves a show, like the American public has enjoyed for the past three decades." It seems...