Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Randall and other interviewers, however, insist they don't try to create a certain type of Harvard man by recommending students they would like to see as later leaders of the nation after graduation. "Harvard is not a ticket to anything." Randall insists, "and sending someone there does not necessarily mean you're doing the best thing for the student." Simpson concurs: "We don't try to mold anybody," in the recruiting or interviewing process...
...PARTY SYSTEM. If the ticket and platform of a second party could be really different, eventually it might come to that. But the only other platform will be Communism. What could another party offer? Less, yes; more, no. We have really attained the fringes of the most advanced socialism without its pink color. Everybody will have a share, enough for a decent kind of living. The big fortunes will be taxed more and more. But you cannot prevent differences in any society, Communist or nonCommunist. We are doing more than any other country I know, without being pinkish. Until...
Animal-Like Howl. The Japanese had paid up to 32,000 yen ($110) for a pair of top tickets, about twice the tab in New York. No price was too high to hear the Meto, as the Japanese call the visitors. The ticket holders sat still and intent during the opera. Not a late straggler nor a cough marred the concentration. The company had just finished its annual spring tour of the U.S., which featured Traviata, and so the production was in crisp form. Conductor Richard Bonynge slowed up now and then for the singers' benefit, but the orchestra...
...effectiveness of some of these campaigns remains to be seen. Though many consumers seem ready to spend, they are not yet going for big-ticket appliances like color TV sets, and even less for new cars. Echoing the view of many in the depressed auto industry, Bangor Dodge Dealer Phillip McFarland says that the rebates have done nothing for his business. "I just don't think it's that important to an individual when he's buying a car," he adds...
They have used ticket promotions to try to increase paid attendance at football games. They have increased the fees graduate students must pay for classes and facilities. Both of these moves have increased the revenues of the Department...