1.   But this year, companies have been pitching their transformation efforts with almost religious fervor.

2.   Chevalier is suited up and ready for the pitch, so ready that he sits in on the four other company pitches before his.

3.   Companies are constantly pitching their stories to this key constituency, industry analysts and big institutional investors.

4.   Companies are pitching everything from bathing salts to herbal laxatives, all in the name of soothing bodies reeling from toxicity.

5.   Companies pitch their business plans here as they would at any other incubator or VC firm.

6.   DiCarlo and other institutional investors who like small company stocks prefer secondary offerings pitched by companies that have specific plans to raise cash as fuel for growth.

7.   Friday, the Food and Drug Administration relaxed its rules governing television advertising to make it easier for pharmaceutical companies to pitch their products directly to patients.

8.   In court documents, the US attorney alleges the company pitched the drug to doctors by showing how they could profit from it.

9.   Just this week, I was pitched by companies calling themselves eAlity and eDedication.

10.   Now the company is pitching its technology for ridding the mail of dangerous bacteria with power enough to overcome even sturdy anthrax spores.