Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...league's contract with the television networks and ESPN guarantees that each team will break even. The first fan through the turnstile represents profit for these teams, and most of the franchises virtually fill their stadiums on season ticket sales alones. Each team plays only eight home games per year--one-tenth as many as baseball franchises--and sports diehards hungry for outdoor action between the end of the World Series and the beginning of spring training have little alternative...
...months harmony has eluded the 48-year-old San Antonio Symphony Society and its 83 musicians. The society, citing mounting debt and flagging ticket sales, demanded a 47% drop in the musicians' payroll, either through salary cuts, a shorter season or a reduction in the size of the orchestra. The musicians complained that the society is not committed to maintaining a symphony of national caliber...
There is a catch for the powerful though. No matter how upscale a Manhattanite climbs, he can never escape the sight of poverty or the threat of violence. The glitterati on their way to a $1,000-a-ticket gala must tiptoe through the homeless camped outside in their cardboard condos. And at this week's chic disco -- in this week's beyond-chic movie thriller -- a wealthy young woman named Claire Gregory (Mimi Rogers) may be witness to a murder. And be tabbed and stalked by the killer. And be protected by Mike Keegan (Tom Berenger), a Queens policeman...
They are dreaming, these middle managers, about getting away from it all. And short of an actual vacation, a three-day business seminar sounds like just the ticket. It will get them out of the office, and they might even learn something...
...woman who could not obtain a ticket to thespeech said through tears, "I just wanted to askCalero a couple of questions...