Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thomas Jefferson that lotteries are a kind of tax "laid on the willing only." Chon Gutierrez, director of the California lottery, goes so far as to assert, "The lottery is not gambling. It's entertainment." And cheap entertainment at that, says Edward Stanek, commissioner of the Iowa lottery, because ticket buyers "can spend $1 and then spend the rest of the week dreaming what they would do if they actually...
Worried about ticket prices? Don't fret, sports fans. At registration, you'll receive a coupon book that will get you into most Harvard sporting events for free and will get you discounts for the really big events like The Game or the hockey playoffs. Most of the time, all you'll need is a coupon and a coat for that windy jaunt across the Charles River...
...suspicion of harboring guerrillas from the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and was packed off to a prison in Addis Ababa. Tortured repeatedly over the next four years, Ahmed was finally moved to a hospital. From there, he escaped to Djibouti, where he purchased a Somalian passport and a ticket to Canada...
...course, that's just casting. And acting. As well as any performer, Costner knows that his eminence is a happy fortuity of timing and talent. And he doesn't mind being this year's hot ticket. The $5 million salary he could command for each picture is a perk. Nor has Costner complained about making movie love to Susan Sarandon in a bathtub (Bull Durham) or Sean Young in the No Way Out limo -- the window-steaming sex scene that earned Costner his first priapic appeal. And for an outdoorsman who was a fine athlete in school, there...
...million flight insurance at $13 a ticket works out to about a dime in expected payouts for every dollar in premiums, leaving Amex 90 cents to cover expenses and profit. The Statue of Liberty stood to gain a penny every time you charged an $80 dinner or a $400 airline ticket to your card, leaving Amex 319 pennies in the case of the dinner (at its service charge of about 4% for restaurants) or 999 pennies in the case of the ticket (at its 2 1/2% or so on airline fares). The premium you paid for the platinum card, which...