Word: ticket
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United will actually lower the number of miles needed to get a free ticket (20,000 miles for a coach seat, vs. the current 35,000). But those tickets will allow travel only during certain times and within the mainland U.S. The airline will sharply increase the number of miles needed to fly at peak times to more desirable tourist destinations (a whopping 240,000 for two first-class seats to Hawaii, vs. the current...
...some point, probably soon after the California primary, the negotiation will have to go private. The high stakes in this chess game will include the Democratic ticket's prospects in the fall and Jackson's future in the party. One can imagine a conversation in which the two fence about how radical or mainstream the platform should be and what Jackson's role will become. Dukakis will hope that his proud companion can settle for influence rather than a specific prize, such as a place on the ticket...
...Canada and 38 states, bused in from every city in Florida, or drive in for a day of bingo before they are flown, bused and driven out that same night. They are greeted at the entrance by handsome young Seminole men in black tuxedos who direct them to the ticket windows. There they buy bingo packets costing from $79 to $289. They may win cash prizes ranging from a few dollars to $125,000, or a new Lincoln Town Car, or a beach-front condominium, or a trip to Las Vegas...
...prisoners appear to share religious ties. Sixteen of the men jailed in Kuwait are Shi'ite Muslims who are thought to support Iran and its leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Hostages released from the jetliner said the gunmen often spoke in religious terms. Sherif Mahrojk Badrawi, a Kuwait Airways ticket agent in Cairo, called them "good Muslims" who "spoke to us in a very Koranic language. They were always using verses from the Koran." The hijackers are thought to belong to Hizballah, a radical Shi'ite group...
...knocked down and to have to get up, that's the ticket. Never mind that it was he who arranged for most of his pratfalls; the getting up still elevates the comedian to something grand. Hard to believe. After all that one knows about Nixon, you would think it is impossible to feel admiration for him, much less affection, but then you realize that you are staring across the study at a man whom the citizens of your country elected to save it and to lead the world, not once but twice, nearly three times; who right now, today, senses...