Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Private donations will pay for transportation costs and soloist fees, while ticket sales should cover the remaining expenses, said HRO Director Benjamin A. Loeb...
Among Republicans with an eye on the top of the 1988 presidential ticket, the only prominent absentee was former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who declined to appear because he had expected to be out of the country. Some, including North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, were accorded podium time mostly as a reward for long-standing ardor. Others, notably former Delaware Governor Pierre S. du Pont IV, were long shots by any standard. A clear favorite was Kirkpatrick, a "heroine to conservatives" as Keene called her, who delivered a foreign policy address to the convention...
First the bad news. From an all-time high in 1984, box-office take in the U.S. and Canada dropped 7%, to $3.75 billion. The number of tickets sold fell 11%, to 1.06 billion. For the first year since 1979, no film returned as much as $100 million to its makers (though Back to the Future, the 1985 champ, should soon reach that goal). Variety Industry Analyst Art Murphy sees this slump as a cyclical phenomenon: the film economy booms, too many films are made to chase the extra dollars, the flurry of competition leads to hasty decisions, then...
...wait. There is a much-maligned high-tech wizard waiting in the wings: the VCR. In 1980, studio revenue from domestic ticket sales and movie videocassettes totaled $1.3 billion (videocasssettes accounted for only 15%). By 1984 the cumulative take was $2.4 billion (33% from cassettes). Last year it rose to $3 billion, and cassette sales were virtually half the total (see chart), despite the "first sale" doctrine, which prohibits studios from earning revenues after cassettes are sold to video outlets. The industry is now pushing hard for a share of rental fees. Nonetheless, in five years, Hollywood has more than...
...that it would furlough 1,010 of its 7,200 flight attendants. Said Wilfred Tirado, seeing his name: "I have a $763 monthly mortgage and a two-month-old son. Now what am I going to do?" In other airports, 23,000 additional Eastern workers, including reservations clerks and ticket takers, learned that their salaries were being rolled back...