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kept up her pitch = went on her voice?

 
 
Reply Wed 9 Nov, 2011 01:25 am

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SAN FRANCISCO — The phone call, at home one night last week, came from a student seeking donations for the University of California, San Francisco.

“Well,” Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann told the caller, “I’m actually the chancellor at U.C.S.F.”

The student, seemingly unaware that chancellor meant head of the university, kept up her pitch: The doctor and her husband had given $5,000 in the past, so how about another donation?
More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11profile.html?_r=2&ref=denisegrady
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Reply Wed 9 Nov, 2011 04:44 am
@oristarA,
Pitch (as in sales pitch) also means some kind of attempt at selling something (an idea or product). In this case the student was trying to get the chancellor to donate money to the organization.
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Reply Wed 9 Nov, 2011 06:02 am
@tsarstepan,
Thanks
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