The pharmaceutical companies spent $13.9 billion to market drugs in 1999, including pitches to doctors and advertising aimed at consumers.

Competition has intensified in so many industries that few can afford to interrupt or suspend pitches aimed at consumers for a month or three.

Inside pitching is a common and legal tactic in baseball, and many players make use of brushback pitches, or pitches aimed underneath the chin, commonly referred to as 'chin music', to keep players away from the plate.

Terry Adams's first pitch, aimed at Harnisch's knees, sailed behind Harnisch.

Print advertisements, posters and promotions assert that Nickelodeon is the obvious first choice for agencies buying commercial time for pitches aimed at children - but they try not to be, well, obvious.

While batters should not be condoned for flinging their bats at pitchers in retaliation for beanballs, baseball history is replete with instances in which batters have been seriously injured by pitches deliberately aimed at them.

He makes his priorities clear by emphasizing "responsibility" over caring, in a pitch aimed at angry right-wing voters.

Her voice was shaped to that quiet, carrying pitch- aimed at Jones' ears only.

Rod whipped his arm back for a straight pitch, aimed at the wall.

A GIANT agency company is stepping up its efforts in multicultural marketing, forming a unit devoted to encouraging advertisers to keep pace with the changing face of consumers by increasing sales pitches aimed at ethnic groups.