Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush Challenge: To come up with ways of combating the Bin Laden threat that project toughness without succumbing to the temptation to grandstand. More important, to recognize that Bin Laden's influence is growing in an Arab political context where hostility to the U.S. is widespread, and to begin to address that political problem. The way to beat Bin Laden is to isolate him, which requires active support in the Arab world...
Most of those seats, though, belong to season holders. The people hardest hit by the spike will be the average fan. Infield grandstand seats will now run at $40 apiece, up nearly 50 percent from last year. And a lower bleacher seat will now cost you 20 bucks, up 25 percent from last season...
...those of us who rely on walk-up purchases on the day of the game, standing-room only tickets will likely rise in turn, up from last year's $14 level. Which means that the privilege of taking in the game from the upper ramps of the left field grandstand in between the beer and bathroom lines will now cost you more than an actual seat in the bleachers did just one year...
...could hear the crowd," she said afterward, "and I could see them at the top of the grandstand...and I was thinking, 'Wow, this is going to be the most awesome experience of my life.'" At that moment a judge stepped out in front of her and raised a red card. Saville's race was ended. "No, no, no, not me!" she screamed. Crying uncontrollably, she fled...
...richness of Aqueduct's Turf Club that enchanted me 15 years ago; it is the grittiness and dirt of the Suffolk Downs grandstand that captivates me today. The attendance on any given day is 95 percent male and the average age of patrons is 50, and it's the last place in Massachusetts, I'm convinced, where profanity and chain-smoking are not only tolerated but encouraged. No sentence spoken without using "motherfucker" can be taken seriously; no bettor without a Lucky Strike dangling from his mouth is respected. Some players are cool and rational and know how the pace...