Part of the time has been defense, but there also comes a time where you've got to make a big pitch or you've got to get a big hit.
Lasseter and Pleasant made a big pitch for the creativity that kids can bring to the game, which should comfort a lot of parents who worry about whether video games are turning their kids brains to much.
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Indeed, the keyboard is said to be up to 50 percent thinner than its competitors, and Synaptics' big pitch to OEMs is that a thinner keyboard allows for slimmer PCs, with room for larger batteries (now that we need).
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"A big part of our pitch used to be the ability to get the laptop back, " says Chief Strategy Officer Ron Penna.
"If you're going to pitch in this city and you're going to be a closer in this city you've got to pitch in big, big-time situations, " Collins said.
Their pitch: The big airlines would receive a government handout if user fees were implemented.
Shortstop Alberto Gonzalez can at least tell his friends he got to pitch in the big leagues.
Happiness was a big part of Rio's pitch after it was voted the happiest city in the world by Forbes magazine.
Valdespin was hit by a pitch with the Pirates up big, one night after he admired a home run for a bit longer than the Pirates would have preferred.
The winner will receive invaluable business services to go towards further developing and scaling their app, as well as the opportunity to present at an angel investor pitch competition the Monday following the big game.
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And I think obviously continuing to make progress -- obviously, the pitch for prevention and wellness are a big part of health care reform, because many of those long-term costs the government and taxpayers end up paying on the back end.
Saluted by the Mets and the FDNY before the game, the 43-year-old Rivera, who plans to retire after the season, cracked a big smile as he threw out a ceremonial first pitch to Mets career saves leader John Franco following a 91-minute rain delay at the start.
"Right now the future is looking kind of cloudy, " said a sales representative at a San Francisco Bay Area Circuit City when asked about the HD DVD format on President's Day, despite a pitch for the format blaring from a big-screen television on the other side of the store.
"Right now the future is looking kind of cloudy, " said a sales representative at a San Francisco Bay Area Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people ) when asked about the HD DVD format on President's Day, despite a pitch for the format blaring from a big-screen television on the other side of the store.
Despite having gained big fame and money, he keeps doing his best on the pitch like a youngster.
"It's no big deal as it will not effect what I do on the pitch and I will just get on with it, " he said.
Arshavin's magic totally deflated the hosts who, despite having big guns Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres and Alberto Aquilani on the pitch in the closing stages, barely mounted any meaningful response as Arsenal closed out the victory with ease.
Michael Yardy duly nipped out two more, Smith stumped after getting nowhere near the pitch on the charge and AB de Villiers bowled trying a big drive.
The trend hit a fever pitch in the 1970s, when New York and many other big cities saw their populations drop by 10 percent or more.
Attempts by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, to float big ideas to galvanise the government are also seized upon as an early pitch for the top job.
Addressing a big crowd at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, they largely pitch the case that the notion of running your team under the model of championships trumping EBITDA is becoming a thing of the past.
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One example that Lodish admires: auto dealers that pitch the notion that now is a good time to buy a big vehicle because the discount will save customers more than enough money to compensate for the extra fuel costs over four or five years.
That's why it's been so shrewd to sort of pitch musicals right at kids, because almost every animated film has a couple of big musical numbers in it.
Hornby is well known for his books Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About A Boy, which have all made it to the big screen.
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Small schools act like big fish in soccer, winning titles, throwing around money and slapping around bigger-name schools on the pitch.
But Cano, especially, is a big name out on an island, and will likely be treated as such by opposing pitchers, who may pitch around him to face weaker hitters.
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