Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concert at a cost of $100,000. The game drew 22,000 fans to the stadium, three times the norm, while concessions took in $100,000, about four times the usual sales. At the final home game in September, the team will give away a $34,000 Corvette sports car in a random drawing...
...generated by a Bentsen appearance. Some 150 people showed up, sitting in small clumps, a family here, a family there. The desultory clapping only emphasized the vastness of the grandstand and the paucity of the crowd. The second his stump speech was over, Bentsen strode angrily back to his car and shook the Missouri dust off his expensive shoes. A few months later he ended his campaign, but organizers of the event remember that day in Sikeston the way others remember a death in the family. The 1976 race so discouraged Bentsen that he considered not running for re-election...
...seat Sultan's Pool. They would sample the rich history of Jerusalem, the flashing, clear waters of Eilat, the archaeological drama of Masada. Bracing for a flood of guests, Hyatt International unveiled a $60 million, 500-room hotel in Jerusalem. Airlines scheduled extra flights, and car-rental agencies planned to plump up their fleets. Israeli tourist officials, anticipating 1.5 million visitors and record revenues of more than $2 billion, launched an ad campaign saying "You've thought about it long enough . . . Come visit us in Israel...
...traffic there lately, at the delicate junction where country meets its past, sizes up its future and -- probably most important -- guns its musical motor and goes off in its own direction. And Crowell, a wonderfully gifted songwriter and rambunctious performer, isn't even driving the fastest car in the pack...
...sisters, got an earful of teen tunes, from Kiss to Clapton, Led Zep to ZZ Top. "My brothers and sisters, people I went to school with -- I mean all of them -- were definitely into rock 'n' roll. Sure, I heard it. I mean, if I was riding in a car with them, I didn't have a lot of choice. But it never really appealed to me that much." What got to Randy was his dad's collection of old country 78s, and even now Travis can recall the immediacy of the music and loving the sound of the voices...