His first swing at launching the channel in the late '80s struck out (rural TV was a tough sell with venture funders and cable operators).
Every time I went for my watch in the safe (naturally having to first swing the large painting aside to reach it), the James Bond theme song started up in my head again.
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Following the announcement, Bush, his wife and their three children made their first campaign swing from Tallahassee to West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
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Take first the required swing.
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When Mr Sinatra was making his first records with the swing bands of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, the foremost pop singer in America was Bing Crosby.
Some hitters swing at every first pitch, and others always strike out looking.
He took a terrible swing at a first-pitch slider, then hit the next pitch for an RBI double just beyond the reach of a sliding McCutchen deep in the right-center field alley.
We forget that when deciding whether a batter checked his swing, the homeplate umpire will routinely ask for the alternative perspective from the first or third base umpire before calling a "swing and a miss" a strike.
By the first decade of the twenty-first century, I could no longer swing a golf club.
As the first quarter of 2011 is in full swing, and proxy season is around the corner, many compensation committees are considering whether they should take another look at who their compensation consulting advisor should be.
Hilfenhaus and Siddle were back on, there was a bit of reverse swing for them and the first sign of danger came when Pietersen, on 66, survived an lbw appeal off Hilfenhaus that should have been upheld by umpire Billy Doctrove.
Obama first won the public trust, particularly of swing voters, by railing against the mindless partisanship that Sen.
"Johnson got a wicket after about 45 minutes in the first innings, he got the ball to swing and it opened the floodgates, " said Gooch.
Our economy is growing for the first time in a year, and the swing from contraction to expansion since the beginning of the year is the largest in nearly three decades.
Swing Hard and Pray: When I first started playing, I thought golf was all about swinging hard and hoping I made contact.
When it was first announced, journalists looked at the chance to swing lightsabers and force-choke stormtroopers with motion controls with cautious optimism, but as time went on, it became clear that this title was heading south.
It was just very difficult getting into the swing of things, it was the first season in four or five years that I hadn't run a personal best, but it was a bit of a learning curve I guess.
Casinos gapped up yesterday and were the first to go red, getting me out of my swing longs that worked well recently.
Mr Romney made gains nationally and in swing states after an assured performance during his first debate against a listless Mr Obama two weeks ago in Denver, Colorado.
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Pathan, who found plenty of swing movement throughout, removed Sanath Jayasuriya in the first over and also dismissed three others in the top six.
Rose had terrible back problems for years, resulting from the way he had been taught to swing, so addressing that was Foley's first order of business.
Over the course of his first term, his support dropped among young people (a swing of 2.4 million net votes to Mitt Romney), women (a net swing of 1.6 million votes to Mr. Romney), and African-Americans (a net swing 945, 000 votes).
Warren White of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues were the first to find that sea-surface temperatures across the globe swing up and down in a 10-to 12-year period that lags behind the solar cycle by two to three years.
"From where I was in the first round last week, where I was still looking for a swing and the changes were feeling very uncomfortable, I've done a total about-turn, " he said.
Garcia, with a wild swing of emotions whenever he plays, looked subdued on the first tee.
Collingwood won the toss for the first time in the series, however, but did not see the swing he had hoped for on an overcast morning.
The master of reverse swing bowling was returning to the side after been overlooked for the first Test, and spending some time in the shadows of former understudy Shoaib Akhtar.
Nothing here is truly groundbreaking, per se, but it's the first time that we've seen such a giant company take a meaningful swing at a product sector that has caught fire for myriad reasons. 2012 is shaping up to be the year of the inexpensive tablet, but if Intel has its druthers, you'll be shaking off the hype and picking up a full-fledged computing tool instead.
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Johnson was again a menace to England, bowling with pace and swing to add two wickets to the superb haul of six from the first innings.
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