Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sell-out crowd of 27,000, Cameroon, the reigning winners of the African Nations Cup, came out eschewing its normal precision offensive play, apparently preferring to wait back and play for a tie, which, as the standings of their division were shaping up, would have earned them a plane ticket to California...
...were so good about avoiding what the traffic people charmingly call the "impact zones" that some fear that Los Angeles drivers (those who have not fled town) may be shortly lulled into resuming their ordinary ways. They could even come to the Games. Local newspapers burst with ads for tickets of every stripe, not all placed by overambitious travel agents or venal speculators. Not a few poor fans misunderstood the system or unstrategically overordered and have landed them selves in the ticket-brokering business on a big scale. A brisk market also developed in team pins, something of an Olympic...
...hate it," she says flatly. "It was great working with everybody, but I don't like the pressure. It's too much like modeling." 5, 38, 42, 18, 17, 1. No, it can't be. Check it again. It is. Clutching the New York State lottery ticket, Venero Pagano, 63, ran into the bedroom of his modest two-story Bronx home and woke his sleeping wife, "You're never going to believe this. I think we're millionaires." She did not believe it either. But 5, 38, 42, 18, 17, 1-a combination Pagano...
...journalist, a self-avowed "moral butterfly" with an airline ticket out, finds himself bored by Cuyama almost as soon as he lands. He has seen poverty and post-colonial delusions of grandeur before, and will again. Dina sinks further into liberating despair, secretly desiring the destruction her husband campaigns against...
...road motocross in which racers compete on a half-mile man-made course. Unlike indoor soccer or box lacrosse, supercross is not significantly different from its bigger, outdoor brother. It also boasts a number of features that have promoters, sponsors and racers licking their lips in anticipation of ticket sales...