Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn, lawmakers are at fault in their dealings with lobbyists. Many of them hold annual fund-raising cocktail parties in Washington and pressure the lobbyists to buy tickets at $50 to $500 each. Congressional stars like Howard Baker and Warren Magnuson can easily raise $50,000 through these affairs. Democrat Lud Ashley, chairman of the House Energy Committee, held a bash in July and netted about $30,000. Lesser lawmakers barely break even, but can't seem to shake the habit of staging such parties anyway. "It's one of the seamy sides left in lobbying," protests...
...Africa's mines were giving out. Reports John Eyler, merchandising manager for Oregon's Meier and Frank department stores: "We've never sold so much fine china or silver. It's selling like crazy." Adds Lasker Meyer, senior vice president of the Houston-based Foley's chain: "Our big-ticket items have been very strong...
...might actually get a chance to see the Red Sox in the (all too human) flesh in the middle of next week, when the Cleveland Indians gallop into town for a three-game set at Fenway. Normally it's a real challenge to pick up a Sox ticket these days, but the Tribe is so amateurish they've been invited to send a delegation to the Olympics, so don't sweat it. Rumor has it that Bowie Kuhn actually forgot Cleveland is still in the major leagues, and the team certainly hasn't done much to correct that impression. Look...
...rate summer ticket to mystery, mayhem and murder...
...former Yale professor, is the board's contact man with foreign central banks. A refugee from Germany, he lived through insane inflation there in the 1920s; he likes to tell of the day that his mother handed him a billion-mark bill so that he could buy a ticket to a swimming pool. Stephen S. Gardner, a former chairman of Philadelphia's Girard Trust Bank, is an economic moderate, and Philip Coldwell, once head of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, is a hardline conservative who considered Arthur Burns too liberal. Philip Jackson, an Alabama mortgage banker, is noted...