Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...votes to block legislation, but the vote was good enough to encourage communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov to run for President again next June. This is exactly what the Kremlin wants. Kremlin controllers know that Zyuganov, wooden and thin-skinned, is a weak campaigner, and they will be able to pitch the contest as a race between the old and the new. The big loser in the election, however, is Primakov. Few now remember his announcement on the eve of the election that he would run for President. Primakov's bloc will end up with a respectable number of Duma seats...
...perfect pitch and perfect rhythm. His improvised melodies and singing could be as lofty as a moon flight or as low-down as the blood drops of a street thug dying in the gutter...
Thanks to energetic protesters who claim the company's modified crops carry a wide range of environmental and health risks, opposition to the so-called Frankenfoods reached a fever pitch in Europe this year. And lately, American consumers have shown signs of rebelling against products such as Monsanto's modified seeds, which are at the heart of the company's agribusiness. Those inklings of dissent were enough, apparently, to make up executives' minds: They would complete a merger and quickly cut the agribusiness free from the rest of the company, letting it fend for itself. That amputation, execs hope, will...
Under the new plan, dining staff will arrange the snacks for students before they leave for the night, which is usually at about 8 p.m. Before breakfast the next morning, staff members will tidy up, although students will be encouraged to pitch...
...There's a personality factor too. In the previous show, David Horn proceeded to play a flute line that he plays frequently, and Shawn proceeded to attack him with his "alien simulator"--his pitch shifter--and that's something you can't get across unless you're there...