Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passenger traffic has been flat. The price hikes have stirred the suspicion of the Justice Department, which launched an antitrust investigation into possible collusion among the nation's major airlines. The Justice probe is seeking to determine whether the fare hikes were economically justified or the airlines acted in concert to raise prices...
...said he is considering performances by reggae artist Ziggy Marley and local folk singer Tracy Chapman, said the committee cannot respond to concert offers quickly enough if the council has to approve every step in the negotiations...
...past four to five weeks we've been working with some very greedy concert promoters," Kim said, explaining his difficulties attracting the B-52s. "The concert business changes on a daily basis...
...that $35,000 was too much money to gamble on such a proposition. "If we're going to throw around money like this, we might as well play the stock market," Finance Committee Chair David A. Battat '91 said of the original proposal to allot $50,000 for a concert...
...vocal opposition, including Battat and former Treasurer Michael R. Kelsen '90, criticized the council for the short length of time it spent discussing such a large expenditure. The council spends more than four hours alloting its $40,000 grants budget, but "we spent 10 minutes discussing the [concert] issue, and we threw out $35,000," Battat said...