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iron mike: A pitching machine with adjustable speed used frequently during batting practice, helping to preserve the strength of the pitching staff; experimented with since 1896, it has been perfected to such a point that it can deliver just about every kind of pitch except a spitball.  3, fiche 1, Anglais, - pitching%20machine

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"Iron Mike" is the name given to the machine replacing the pitchers for batting practices in baseball. It comes from "iron man/ironman", designating a durable player. To designate the machine, "pitching machine" is a generic stating what it is, "batting machine", a questionable generic stating its utility, and "Iron Mike", a specific or name given, popular enough to write it as a generic :"iron mike").  3, fiche 1, Anglais, - pitching%20machine

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Appareil capable de reproduire tous les types de lancers au baseball et utilisé aux fins de l'entraînement des frappeurs; la vitesse des lancers s'ajuste également.  2, fiche 1, Français, - lanceur%20m%C3%A9canique

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À l'entraînement printanier [...] Les frappeurs, quant à eux, doivent faire attention à leurs mains afin d'éviter les ampoules que pourraient causer les nombreuses heures passées dans la cage, face à un vrai lanceur ou au lanceur mécanique.  1, fiche 1, Français, - lanceur%20m%C3%A9canique

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Le terme «lance-balles» a été suggéré par le Centre national du sport et de la récréation en 1984, et «lanceur automatique», par le Service de linguistique de Radio-Canada en 1985.  2, fiche 1, Français, - lanceur%20m%C3%A9canique

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Economists who think the utilities of different persons can be added together to form a total social utility speak of taxing to produce maximum total utility, or to produce some specified pattern of utility sacrifice. Thus, if each extra dollar brings less and less satisfaction to a man, and if the rich and poor are alike in their capacity to enjoy satisfaction, a dollar taxed away from a millionaire and given to a median-income person is supposed to add more to total utility than it subtracts.  1, fiche 2, Anglais, - maximum%20total%20utility

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(...) if each extra dollar brings less and less satisfaction to a man, and if the rich and poor are alike in their capacity to enjoy satisfaction, a dollar taxed away from a millionaire and given to a median-income person is supposed to add more to total utility than it subtracts [, the] so-called "law of diminishing utility".  1, fiche 3, Anglais, - law%20of%20diminishing%20utility

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