Just as Olbermann and Napolitano are joining forces in denouncing the current plans for discovering spending cuts, two other polar opposites are pitching for an end to corporate welfare: Ralph Nader and the Cato Institute.

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But it hardly spells the end for the company, which is just getting started pitching the BlackBerry Z10, a phone that is about as opposite of the iPhone than one can get and still be a smart device.

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If we are a staff that's a six-inning pitching staff, we are going to wear our bullpen out by the end of May.

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Activities include a physical boot camp and lessons on business pitching and a number of paid apprenticeships and work placements are offered at the end of the course.

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If you spend as much time pitching customers as you do courting investors, you'll make more money, give up less equity and end up with a far more valuable company at the end of the day.

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