Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee expects that income will equal or even surpass the cost, as it did last time. The sources: ticket sales, souvenirs ranging from cuff links and tie-bar sets ($25) to porcelain eagles ($1,750), and $2.2 million from advertising on the televised portion of the Inaugural gala (ABC). But some cost-cutting efforts have backfired. Seeking 200 performers for public events, a committee consultant placed an ad in a trade publication for nonunion, "clean-cut, All-American types," to work for expenses but no wages. Several unions, including the Screen Actors Guild, which Reagan headed more than three decades...
...Arlie Russell Hochschild says that the perpetually frozen smile of flight attendants is a classic bit of commercial manipulation that propels many of them into mini- breakdowns at the end of the trip. One flight attendant calls it "artificially created elation," the sort of thing that turns women into ticket-selling objects, not to mention flying bunnies...
...addition to the proceeds from the concerts, which will cost $5 per ticket, the committee hopes to raise money from local corporations, city workers, and church collections...
...manner did turn off many voters. But in the end, she went a long way toward convincing all but the most skeptical that she had the right stuff, not only to become the first woman and the first Italian American to run on a major party's national ticket, but to be equal to the stress of being a heartbeat away from the presidency. Continuously under a scrutiny more intense than was ever before applied to a vice-presidential candidate, she made few gaffes and gave no ground. With her candidacy hanging in the balance, she called a press conference...
...that her campaign was a risk. Was the risk worth it? The answer lies not with the result but with the women, and men, who looked at Ferraro and sensed a limitless future for their daughters. Whichever way people voted (and, by and large, they voted against the Democratic ticket, not just 63% of the men but 56% of the women), whether they liked or disliked Ferraro, her campaign probably advanced by at least ! ten years the full participation of women in the responsibilities and opportunities of the American dream. When she told women, "If we can do this...