Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should control tickets and prices comes at a time when fans are already fed up with the scalping that can drive up prices for the most desirable tickets to several times their face value as they are resold, often more than once, by middlemen. These operators are a mix of quick-buck artists at street level, high-priced attorneys who speculate in tickets for profits, corporate executives trading favors, music-industry insiders and Mafiosi who control key blocks of tickets and take a cut of the inflated price. While Pearl Jam is pointing the finger at Ticketmaster's relatively modest...
...probably not enough terror in Wolf to satisfy today's hard-core horror fan -- no chain saws or razor-sharp fingernails -- but there is a well- measured sense of pity for Will. You could, if you wish, find in him a symbol for all kinds of human bedevilment. Mix that with humor, intelligence and high-style filmmaking and you have a true summer rarity -- a genre movie for grownups...
...regulating that mix isn't easy. The House and Senate have approved drastically different versions of campaign-finance reform, each containing a provision to limit the use of personal assets. But unless there is a new Supreme Court test with an outcome different from the Valeo ruling, that ceiling can work only as part of a voluntary scheme. And incumbents are hardly likely to write legislation that would so obviously help those who would unseat them...
Creative writing is "one of many things in the mix, and not an immediate priority," department chair Leopold Damrosch said earlier this year...
...attempt to limit the freedom to choose a house has an insulting and paternalistic aspect....It denies that students may have the character and maturity to find a good mix of difference and similarity in their social interactions... March...