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Most important, the tickets are still cheap. Typically, a family of four can get into the game for about $10. The owners are able to hold down prices because of the subsidies from the major leagues and the other revenues, ranging from hot-dog and baseball-cap sales to advertising proceeds. The outfield fences in many of the parks are studded with billboards that local and national advertisers rent for the season for as much...
Congress was more inclined to think about the cost, which Pepper proposed to cover by lifting the $45,000 cap on income subject to the 1.45% Medicare payroll tax. Projections showed that this tax hike would cost $9 billion by 1993, a prospect that brought out thousands of small businesses and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in opposition. They were joined by the health-insurance industry, looking to protect its lucrative stake in private medigap insurance...
...have not proved, the existence of uranium deposits similar to those located in southern Australia and South America, to which Antarctica was attached some 150 million years ago. The presence of other minerals, including gold and diamonds, is believed possible. But since most deposits would lie beneath an ice cap with an average depth of 1 1/2 miles, exploration or recovery is not currently feasible...
...past Dunkin' Donuts' 46 varieties, past the topless temptresses of movie marquees, past the T-Shirt Express, past the half-hour photo store, past the mendicant * saxophone player on the corner. Decked out, some in black leather jackets, others in pink high-tops and bobby-sox, a jaunty tweed cap here, a brightly colored scarf there, they jaywalk across 48th Street in twos and threes, dodging yellow taxis. Quick! Into an alley, up a metal staircase and through an entrance marked STAGE DOOR...
...Five minutes before curtain, a hush falls over the backstage. They gather for a nightly ritual, heads bent in prayer. Soft voices rise and fall in a Zulu chant. In the corridor, band members stop short and bow their heads. The doorman, a flush-cheeked Irishman, respectfully removes his cap. "I've never seen this kind of dedication," he murmurs...