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...suites - 325 of them - and high-priced "club seats" with access to various bar-lounges at escalating levels of luxury. Those seats require that you first buy a 30-year license, which costs between $16,000 and $150,000, depending on sight lines and your desired degree of excess. And that sum doesn't include the cost of season tickets that range from $59 to $340 per game for those seats. Team Marketing Report, a sports-business publisher, maintains a Fan Cost Index, which is the average cost for a family of four to purchase tickets, food and drink, programs...
...transfer proportional-representation system, each voter ranks nine candidates for the Council, including write-ins. Candidates who are ranked first on ten percent of ballots are declared elected. Any extra ballots they receive beyond the ten percent quota are redistributed to the candidates marked next in preference on those excess ballots.The count continues with the elimination of those candidates who received fewer than 50 first place rankings and the redistribution of their ballots to other candidates according to the next preference marked. After each, the candidate with lowest number of votes is eliminated, and ballots are again redistributed. Cambridge...
Obama, President Barack • financial leaders are warned by that "we will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked excess," but really, haven't we already? • patience with is increasingly being lost by supporters of as a result of the refusal or inability of to fight back with passion and outrage against the obvious enemies of • Star Wars lightsaber is geekily brandished...
Some are more discrete, hosting sample sales in dark industrial buildings in Manhattan and using invitation-only third-party websites, such as brandalley.com, gilt.com, and billiondollarbabes.com, to sell excess inventory at heavily discounted prices...
...incorporating pleating, wrinkling and crimping. Recycling has been a common theme among this year's entries, which include pieces constructed from used neckties, old sofa parts and worn-out bicycle tires. Canadian designer Angela Bright has created Let Them Drink Tea - a dress inspired by 18th century French court excess but made with tea bags and coffee filters...