Word: ticket
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Since Florida joined 27 other states and plunged into the lottery business last January, gamblers have plunked down more than $1 billion for lotto or scratch-off tickets, and the state has tucked away $350 million for its schools. Not everyone enjoys the boom, however. Merchants find the growing lines of ticket buyers a headache. Their annoyance was dramatized last week, following Florida's record $55.1 million payoff, when President James Kufeldt of Winn-Dixie Stores gave the state a month's notice that his 471 supermarkets are pulling out of the games. Swarms of ticket buyers were sometimes "impairing...
SEVEN months after the lowa caucuses, one-and-a-half months after the Democratic Convention, Gov. Michael Dukakis does not know the difference between being on top of a ticket and leading a party...
...meet an 11 p.m. curfew and take a mandatory 90-min. nap at noon. Although the sport is big enough in Europe that club players can earn in excess of $50,000 a year, Story survives on $4,000 from donations and a part- time job with the U.S.O.C. ticket office, plus free room and board...
...LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Now that ticket lines are replacing picket lines, Martin Scorsese's terrific film can be appreciated as a passionate, full-bodied meditation on Jesus' humanity...
...plan on hoppin' on the T and heading over to the Gahden to catch a Celtics game this year. One more thing that has remained constant is the ticket availability for Boston games. You'd probably have a better chance of finding a Celtics' ticket in the street than at the box office...