Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abrupt drop in business activity reflects the concerns of newly tightfisted consumers, whose spending makes up two-thirds of all U.S. economic activity. Gone is the pent-up demand for autos, houses and other big-ticket items that helped make last year's growth the fastest in 10 years. Many consumers, whose installment borrowing rose to a record $928 billion in February, today are more concerned about repaying those debts than about not owning a newer, better dishwasher. At the same time, an increase in unemployment from 5.4% in February to 5.5% in March has deepened workers' anxieties. "Corporate layoffs...
...morning following the Oklahoma explosion, Kluttz went to Logan Airport and bought a ticket on United for the next flight to Oklahoma City. He was to become one of the volunteers flying in from all over the world to help the search effort...
...Major League baseball is back. It's been257 days since the last pitch was thrownin a big league game, and questions abound. While fans wonder if the out-of-practice players will be up to snuff, the owners and players are wondering if the fans will come back. Season ticket sales are lagging in some cities, and five teams have cut their average ticket price. TIME sports editor Steve Wulf says that although there are many reasons for the fans to be dissatisfied--a shorter than normal season, an umpire's strike and the possibility that the players may strike...
Wynn inaugurated the era of big-spender shows in 1990 with the Mirage's $28 million Siegfried & Roy, an astounding farrago of illusion and sorcery, acrobats and armies of the knights, vanishing tigers and elephants--and leather, leather everywhere. The evening now goes for $78.35 a ticket. With the possible exception of an all-night masseuse, this is the priciest entertainment on Broadway or the Strip. But Siegfried & Roy remains a huge...
...Then I got a parking ticket and took care of that. I walked back and got lost on the way to Byerly. I was just looking around, trying to figure out which way the map was facing," Rovira added...