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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most expensive trip Harvard Student Agencies offers--one roundtrip ticket to from New York to Nice, France...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: after the facts | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

Cheapest package at HSA Travel--roundtrip ticket to London...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: after the facts | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

...songbook full of tunes with enough hooks to put in a tackle box and a sensual appeal that is insinuating and disarming at once, the Fab Four get trotted out like some handy musical yardstick for measuring progress and promise. No fair. The Bangles are a long way from Ticket to Ride, never mind In My Life. It is still early in the tour--their first as U.S. headliners--but the accomplishment of their guitar playing isn't fully matched by any assurance of stagecraft, and the vocals (shared by all four members of the band) risk being swamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Come on, Let's Get Banglesized! | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...quarter of 1986, People cut its fuel bill by as much as $16 million, or 30%. The oil- price plunge may not result in lower air-fares, since they have already been slashed by the recent discount wars, but reduced fuel costs may keep airlines from having to push ticket prices back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Money in Most Pockets | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...speaking person in tow. With his friend's help, William Murphy, 28, explained to Yves's father Jean-Guy, 51, that he had found a wallet belonging to the elder Lavigueur. The unemployed Murphy had anonymously returned the wallet to Jean-Guy but held onto a 72 cents lottery ticket inside --until he learned it was worth a winning U.S. $5.6 million. The grateful JeanGuy decided to divide the winnings among himself, four members of his family and Murphy. Murphy's share of the proceeds: $864,000, which in Canadian dollars made him a millionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: As Chance Would Have It | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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