The problem is that no one, from the manager to the broadcaster to the pitchers themselves, wants to use an ugly word like choke.
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As tools like Facebook and Twitter are becoming part of our everyday lives, retailers know that word spreads like wildfire, and keeping their loyal customers happy is a must.
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This word looked like it might trip up 11-year-old Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kan.
He's happiest inventing eccentric word combinations like a musical linguist toying with strange sounds.
After a handful of three-word responses like that, I realized she didn't care.
Maybe we just need to come up with a different word for like when it comes to real life.
In particular, never, ever, in any circumstances reflect the fact that many people use the word "like" several times in every sentence.
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For starters, stop thinking of budget as a bad word, like diet.
If we take this analogy back into Manufacturing, I believe manufacturing companies must now be partially like a word document and partially like a printer.
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If the number cleared, a dispatcher called it back and asked for a code--sometimes a word (like "cartoon") or the code name of a courier.
"The judge is wrong in the sense that the Facebook button actually says the word 'like, ' so there are actually words being used, " said Aden Fine, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed a brief supporting Carter's appeal.
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That lets you read the text in attachments like Word and Acrobat files and see pictures in grayscale, like a BlackBerry on steroids.
After all, professionals are among our most robust users and providers of feedback for software like Microsoft Word and Excel, as well as communication and collaboration applications like Outlook and SharePoint.
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The MS Office suite entails productivity software applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access.
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Add as many quotation marks around the word as you like, but it was true.
Application by application, basic enterprise programs like word processing, e-mail and spreadsheets are moving to the Web.
The resulting word cloud reads like more of a storm cloud, as you can see here.
For this amount you get a whole bag of goodies, like word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, calendar and e-mail.
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For others, a game like Sissyfight, or a magazine like Word, might as well have come from ancient Greece.
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The trouble is that, by now, the Oprah-obsessed out there are hanging on her every word and suggestion like veritable cult members.
On-the-ball companies understand that digital technology is like word of mouth on steroids and they ensure that their branding initiatives are worth sharing.
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The tiny super-computer also boasts an impressive array of mega-hot software like Word, Excel, a picture browser, an e-book reader, paint brush -- the list literally goes on and on.
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If the word artist seems like a stretch for a man who works with springs and screws, just listen to Journe describe his wonderment when a new creation comes to life.
And while a few basic features are notable by their absence, like word count and copying and pasting to and from the desktop applications, support for new features are being added all the time.
" Soft skills include "the ability to work in groups and to make effective oral and written presentations" as well as "the ability to use personal computers to carry out simple tasks like word processing.
Using your laptop or tablet, you would access a word processor Web site on the cloud (much like you open the Word program on your laptop now).
" Then he catches himself: "Um, I know the NFL doesn't like that word.
"I don't like the word anarchy, but in some ways that's what we're creating, " says Sastri, HelloBrain's CEO.
' People started to talk about it and the word of mouth spread like a trail of gunpowder.
"I don't like the word anarchy, but in some ways that's what we're creating, " says Sastri, HelloBrain's chief executive.
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