Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, Harvard impressed as many of the 300 fans on hand (which, by the way, provided the first sellout in the five-year history of Briggs) with its hard play and determination as the Blue Devils did with its talent...
Tear gas too. On opening night, just as the dancers were starting a coy mating dance called Summer, the sellout audience at the Metropolitan Opera House was routed by a cloud of noxious gas that emptied the 4,000-seat auditorium and forced cancellation of the performance. (The radical Jewish Defense League at first claimed and then denied responsibility.) Next evening, amid beefed-up security, the show went off without a hitch...
...Charles has worked closely with planners ofthe 350th on events such as tonight'sChampagne-Swing Dance, which will be held at thehotel. The 1000 available tickets for the dancesold out weeks ago (the first 350th event to sellout), and 5000 guests are on the waiting list fortickets, she said...
...September 1981, theatergoers gasped at the record-setting $100 ticket price and bottom-numbing 8 1/2-hr. length. Co-Producer Bernard Jacobs of the Shubert Organization described seeing both halves in one day as "participating with the actors in a survival experience." Nonetheless, Nickleby's 14-week run became a sellout, playing to almost 55,000 people and leaving countless others feeling they had missed a triumph never to be repeated...
...Eastern, the sellout is a rough landing after years of financial turbulence. The airline expanded too aggressively in the 1970s, taking on a crippling debt load to buy new aircraft. In the 1980s, fare wars slashed revenues while labor costs had got out of control. The carrier's pilots now , make an average of $112,535 a year, almost twice what Texas Air skippers receive. Eastern has slipped repeatedly into the red, and its comebacks never seem to last. After managing a $73 million profit for the first nine months of last year, the airline lost $67 million...