Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply a failure of delivery," said Director of Sports Information John P. Veneziano. "We expected [the ticket envelopes] at a certain date, and they weren't there...
Students seeking tickets for The Game now have an extra week to buy them, thanks to a shortage of ticket envelopes...
When a South Korean businessman expressed interest last April in being photographed with Bill Clinton, the Democratic National Committee was only too happy to sell him a $50,000 ticket to a presidential fund raiser. At first the deal worked precisely the way these things are supposed to. John Lee's company bought not one ticket but five; then Lee attended the dinner with several associates and walked away with his pictorial reward. All seemed fine until two weeks ago, when a reporter from the Los Angeles Times phoned the D.N.C. with a question. Why, the reporter wanted to know...
...that no one would catch on, Tarnoff had his wife book his airline ticket to Toronto, where he met with Alarcon in a hotel room to sign the deal. Tarnoff and Halperin were afraid the Cuban Americans might try to scuttle the talks. Indeed, a decision memo had to be sent to Clinton three times before he finally agreed to keep the negotiations secret from the core group. When the agreement was announced, however, angry Cuban Americans poured into the streets of Miami, and the core group retaliated by having Clinton oust Halperin as Cuba point man. The core group...
Loida Nicolas Lewis is on a roll. She has just won another $10 in a friendly wager with a colleague. After gleefully waving the crinkled bill in the air as though it were a winning lottery ticket, she ceremoniously places it inside a picture frame with six other flattened, face-up sawbucks. "He didn't think I could negotiate a lower lease, so I told him to put up or shut up," gloats Lewis. "They all second-guessed me, but I haven't lost...