1.   Already, the idea has been pitched to dozens of companies and investor groups, they said.

2.   And the testing ground has always been the Sunday dinner table in Roswell, Ga., where he would pitch idea after idea to his family.

3.   Arkenstone pulled together this technology by pitching the ideas to technology companies in Silicon Valley.

4.   At the Las Vegas meeting, which included other partners in the Kansas City pharmacy venture, Swift pitched the idea of a diversion.

5.   Barham contacted families of victims to pitch his idea.

6.   AeroVironment has spun off a company called SkyTower Inc., which is pitching the idea of providing broadband access through Helios.

7.   Almost always, promoters build investor enthusiasm by pitching their ideas at a forum.

8.   But after pitching and pitching and pitching the idea, this year it finally caught fire.

9.   But none of that was in her mind, she said, when she pitched the idea to CBS last summer.

10.   Caesar and his writers pitched ideas back and forth.