Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knot of Students for Dukakis began heckling the rally, then took advantage of the occasion to do a brisk business in T-shirts advertising the Democratic ticket...
...News-New York Times poll of 1034 probable voters found 48 percent support for the Bush-Quayle ticket and 46 percent for the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket. But when voters were asked about their presidential preference only, the support for Dukakis slipped to 43 percent...
Moreover, 1988 has become the Year of the Handler partly because of the great voids this time. Among them: the lack of visceral issues to shape the campaign, the absence of a commanding personality on either ticket, and the fuzziness of the national mood on both economic and foreign policy issues. In this environment, small tactics and forced errors can have a large impact. Experts in offensive gambits and defensive damage control are indispensable. With no margin for error, the danger of a gaffe, a mistake that will reveal too much, induces a crippling level of scripted caution. After...
...European avant-garde imports to new works by Los Angeles playwrights and projects from black, Asian and Hispanic theater labs -- is so compelling that within three years of opening, it has grown to a thriving four-theater complex with 26,000 subscribers that earns half its budget from ticket sales. Playgoers readily brave the neighborhood to see the L.A.T.C.'s feisty, political and customarily left-of-center offerings...
Some tactics were never used in the UnitedStates. In February, for example, RJR-Nabiscoplanned three concerts by noted Hong Kong singerHsow-Yu Chang in Taiwan. Fans could not pay fortickets with money, but were required instead to"pay" with empty cigarette packs. Five packs wereredeemable for a ticket...