Word: pitchs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decision. One could also factor in the effect (and question the morality) of recruiting campaigns and strategies that specifically target certain minority groups (following the español link on goarmy.com or airforce.com does not simply lead to a translated site, but an entire culturally-based sales pitch aimed at Latino youth.) To further elicit meaning from the data, one might also compare statistics between branches of the military—since, for instance, the Air Force offers significantly different prospects for its recruits than the Army. GUSTAVO A. ESPADA ’96 Somerville, Mass. January...
...called for elections. In fact, the race itself has quickly become a referendum on whether the House needs dramatic change in leadership, which both Shadegg and Boehner say they would bring, or just a new leader who can move the GOP's agenda effectively, which is the campaign pitch of Blunt. Both Boehner and Shadegg have jointly suggested Blunt should step down from his job as Majority Whip and allow a separate election for the number three leadership post. And while each has sharply attacked earmarks as pork barrel projects that should be limited, Blunt has defended the value...
...when he was at the height of his middleweight boxing career. He spoke of how he was saved from the electric chair only because of the quality of his legal representation, and how he still spent nearly twenty years in prison, ten of which were in the pitch dark of solitary confinement...
...avoid the issue, for the most part, in the first days of the controversy, focusing instead on the president’s public statements and whether he should apologize. But in the weeks to come, calls for the transcript among professors and the media would reach a fevered pitch and test the limits of Mass. Hall’s defiance...
...Woolf (also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles, the first in their class to reach land. Contact, of an edgily entertaining sort, ensues. It's a treat to see the pitch-perfect work of two grand troupers: Frances Sternhagen, hopping about like a perky tern, and George Grizzard (Nick in the original 1962 production of Virginia Woolf), who's equally convincing as either a cranky-adorable coot or a statesmen to the lizard world. As seascapes should be, this...