Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend who was at the same time being dunned for late payments on his green card), and in awe as it offered baggage insurance against the possibility that your tennis racket would wind up in Acapulco more than six hours after you did. (A mere $4.75 a ticket buys you as much as $200 in protection against disasters such as this...
...Louis. Katherine Dunham, a grande dame of the dance, was able to operate a studio in the city in the late 1960s. Heptathlon gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee recalls a happy childhood there and still returns occasionally from the West Coast to visit friends. But today the hottest ticket in East St. Louis is a ticket out of it. The two high schools produce perennial state champions in football and basketball, putting - a few gifted athletes on the road to college, hoping for stardom in the N.F.L. or N.B.A. For other youngsters, there is profit in peddling crack...
...January, 27 members of Congress, some with wives and children, left the cold of Washington for the sun of the California desert courtesy of the tobacco industry. Off they flew, at about $1,000 per round-trip ticket, and stayed at the luxurious Hyatt Grand Champions Resort, where suites go for $300 a night, the greens fees are prepaid, and meals are included. In addition to expenses, most legislators got spending money -- $1,000 to $2,000 -- for participating in one of three 90-minute panel discussions that ended at 11:30 a.m. each day so members could...
...town? Time to nurture a show while insulated from panic- inducing box-office pressures, and solid artistic collaboration. Increasingly, regional artistic directors have some background of commercial success, while the standards of acting and design generally measure up to those off, and indeed on, Broadway. Just as important, the ticket buyers are receptive and discerning...
Those who come to view Commencement, however, are not necessarily guaranteed a place to sit. According to the University Marshal's office, approximately 20,000 passes to the Yard have been distributed, leaving some 1000 ticket-holders to view graduation ceremonies from the steps of Widener or University Hall...