Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boulder police in July snared and ticketed a flight of 55 cyclists racing past a stop sign, and Steve Clark, the city's bicycle-program coordinator, applauded the crackdown: "When one segment of the group creates bad p.r., it hurts all cyclists." In Eugene, Ore., according to Bicycle Coordinator Diane Bishop of the public-works department, police patrol university areas, especially in their annual autumn bike-safety campaign, in which, she says, "they ticket as many as 100 riders a month." Proliferating cyclists reduced Denver Post Sports Columnist John McGrath to epithet: "Look around: geeks in long black shorts...
...other proposals for the site, including the University's. The terms of Harvard's unsuccessful bid for the site would have let St. Paul's parish choose between a $3 million sale price with a promise to include some low-income housing in the development, or a $4 million ticket to develop the whole lot for profit...
...teacher, Bork headed for the University of Chicago, which was bubbling with intellectual creativity under its young president, Robert Hutchins. The university encouraged independent thinking, and Bork flourished there. A Phi Beta Kappa, he was a poll watcher for a Chicago professor running for Vice President on the Socialist ticket...
...picture is bright in Tinseltown. Scoring its best summer season ever, the movie industry racked up a record $1.6 billion in ticket sales. That nosed out the previous mark of $1.58 billion achieved in 1984. Back then it was a handful of such blockbusters as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Ghostbusters and Gremlins, each of which reeled in more than $100 million, that led to the banner year. This season, with the exception of the Eddie Murphy triumph Beverly Hills Cop II, which has pulled in $151 million, a dozen or so lesser hits are doing...
Though talking to foreigners is forbidden, a tourist alone presents an irresistible target. A phone rings in his hotel room, and a girl the visitor has never met professes eternal love, leading, no doubt, to a quickie marriage and a ticket out. A government worker takes him aside and asks, with great diffidence, if he would mind very much having his passport stolen. "Nobody is happy, but everyone is afraid to speak out," observes a habanero. "Nobody trusts anybody else. A few years ago, a generation arose that wanted reform. ( Now the main preoccupation is keeping quiet. People are waiting...