Word: grandstanding
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...tickets yesterday," said spokesman Sean Harlin. The Twins were also getting help in Washington, where Minnesota Senators Paul Wellstone and Mark Dayton lobbied the Administration to strip baseball of its antitrust exemption. Given that the current President co-owned the Texas Rangers, this is what's known as a grandstand play...
...Recently, the Red Sox have been producing record attendance numbers despite having the highest ticket prices in baseball. In contrast, Olympic Stadium’s attendance is reaching record lows, and its V.I.P. seats behind home plate cost CAN$36, slightly cheaper than the US$25 obstructed-view outfield grandstand seats at Fenway Park. The favorable $1.50 Canadian-for-U.S. exchange rate enhances the visitors’ ability to acquire their respective hedonistic pleasures—families expose their children to French-Canadian tourism and culture, young couples wine and dine on the St. Lawrence waterfront and young males...
...best choice for me right now (I personally have quit many times, and its short-term benefits are quiet compelling). There is the small problem of sneaking past the course officials without being seen, of plowing two or three miles through deep snow and trackless wilderness to avoid the grandstand, the starting gate, the shooting range and all the other skiers. That'd be tricky, but it's doable. Then just throw my skis and rifle and all my other junk in the rental car and drive like hell back to Jackson Hole, change my flight and head back...
...Bush Challenge: To come up with ways of combating the Bin Laden threat that project toughness without succumbing to the temptation to grandstand. More important, to recognize that Bin Laden's influence is growing in an Arab political context where hostility to the U.S. is widespread, and to begin to address that political problem. The way to beat Bin Laden is to isolate him, which requires active support in the Arab world...
...those of us who rely on walk-up purchases on the day of the game, standing-room only tickets will likely rise in turn, up from last year's $14 level. Which means that the privilege of taking in the game from the upper ramps of the left field grandstand in between the beer and bathroom lines will now cost you more than an actual seat in the bleachers did just one year...