Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urban voting blocs that for decades (Rockefeller excepted), have been under Democratic lock and key. For the first time in memory, they argue, none of the candidates for governor or lieutenant governor is an "upstater": Duryea's running mate, Rep. Bruce Caputo, operates out of Westchester, while the Democratic ticket of Gov. Hugh L. Carey and perennial candidate Mario M. Cuomo hails from Brooklyn and Queens, respectively. The geographical factor--always crucial, but even more so in the era of Swiss-cheese bond issues and state aid for the city--has, the Manhattan observers try to assure themselves, finally tilted...
...after to solve her problem. And there is the case of Esther Peterson, the nation's highest-ranking consumer-affairs official. An unfunny thing happened to her on the way to the Action Line Conference. She showed up at the Commuter Airlines counter at Washington National Airport, with ticket in hand and a confirmed reservation on the day's only flight to the Elmira, N.Y., airport, which serves Corning. You can guess what happened...
...snatched out of his hands: he had won the Democratic nomination but the state supreme court ruled him off the ballot for not meeting South Carolina's five-year residency requirement for gubernatorial candidates. Ravenel thereupon antagonized many party regulars by refusing to support his replacement on the ticket, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, who lost...
...lines do not want to streamline fares just for the sake of convenience. Overall, the cheaper fares have cut average ticket prices about 5% this year, while operating costs are rising 13% or 14% annually. The airlines' overall profit margin is still only 4.3%, which is well below the 5.3% average for all U.S. industry. They must earn at least as much next year as they will in 1978 in order to finance the new planes that they will need in the 1980s. Increasing fares, the most obvious answer, could prove politically difficult. So, to hold their 1979 earnings...
James B. Hill of Somerville, a ticket taker at the theater, has filed charges of assault and battery with the Cambridge Police as a result of the incident...