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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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What it doesn't promise is a ticket to those four events for more than nine out of 10 undergraduates. And the grumbling has begun--among the few who are aware of the 11 College-wide festivities scheduled to commemorate Harvard's founding...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: 350th Gala Criticized For Unjust Selectivity | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...interstate airlines; not one was approved. When competition was opened up in 1978, the fleet of new carriers generally employed relatively cheap nonunion labor and used smaller crews on their aircraft than established airlines did. Some upstarts, like People Express, championed pared-to-the-bone competition, in which low ticket prices took the place of almost all amenities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Among the Merger Clouds | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

With such an alliance, the activists might be able to engage in more militant forms of protest as the students would not necessarily have to risk suspension or expulsion, said Benz. "I think that kind of action is our ticket to really increasing pressure," she added...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: A Serene Harvard: Divestment Without Shanties | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...dean says the MBA has only been seen as a "ticket" within the last 20 years. Sheila Burke (MPA '82), chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), says it will take time for a Kennedy School degree to build the credibility and exposure...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Celebrating the Crimson Handshake | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...turn on the audience, fingers pointed. "It's not only about the rent increase," hisses one. "It's not only about the vote. It's not only about the bloody passbooks . . . What is it?" Silence, broken by a few nervous giggles. "Stand up!" The actor glares at a confused ticket holder in the front row. "What is it?" A terrible quiet. "What is it?" The flustered victim mumbles an answer. With a bitter laugh, his interrogator dismisses him. "My friend," he enunciates fiercely, "you have got to look for it: it is deep down in your heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cries of the Silenced | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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