Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...income-based surtax. Among the provisions to be phased in during the next three years is the cost of respite care for up to 80 hours a year, which will allow many like Anna Price to hire occasional help. But the bill has little effect on the big-ticket item for 1.5 million elderly Americans: nursing-home costs, which average $22,000 a year...
...Jackson complains about the inequities of the delegate- selection system and argues for a tougher stand against South Africa's racial policies. Dukakis listens sympathetically. Looming over the meeting is a too- hot topic that remains pretty much unspoken: whether Dukakis should offer Jackson the second spot on the ticket (which he won't) and what will happen when he doesn't. Down in the lobby, Mark Gearan, a Dukakis spokesman, entertains drowsy reporters with a piano rendition of Getting to Know You from The King...
...national stage for the first time since the 1972 Democratic Convention. There, during a bitter credentials fight, he won TV celebrity by demanding, "Give me back my delegation!" This year in Atlanta, Brown will bargain for Jackson, pushing the party hard to the left on rules, platform and ticket. "If Jackson's program is not made the hallmark of the Democratic platform," he warns, "the new voters that Jackson brought out in the primaries will not be motivated in November...
...council decided to co-sponsor an Otis Day and the Knights benefit concert with a public service group at the Business School. But that show was cancelled the night before it was to go on as the result of a dispute between Knight and the Business School organizers over ticket sales...
...into social fairy tales, but always publishing under the realistically lucid umbrella of fact. The result of years with a notebook out there in the jungles of real life, this novel--Bonfire of the Vanities--purports to lend everything a purpose and win the writer a one-way ticket through the annals of literary history. Tom Wolfe has published his first Novel...