Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congressional Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA), reveals that much of the discrepancy can be explained. For starters, the men's football team, with no female counterpart, makes up for more than half of the funding gap. In addition, the spending statistics include game management costs such as ticket sales, police, etc. which run much higher at men's football and hockey games, for instance, than at women's sporting events. Men's teams, however, make up for this increased cost by generating about five times more revenue than women's teams. The report also masks the fact that...
...Colin Powell, at a stage when Dole not only wanted his active support but dreamed of having him on the ticket, strongly opposed the initiative and defended affirmative action...
...white male patriarchy has gone to the dog track. We live in the squabbling-siblings era of Goneril and Regan (cut the defense budget, the old man doesn't need that many knights anyway). Bob Dole is merely the Duke of Kent, forlornly running on the Lear Restoration ticket...
According to yesterday's report, game management costs--like ticket sales and collection, parking, police and security at football and men's hockey games-- account for the major difference between women's and men's operating expenses...
...sign of intermission. More scenes of rock-throwing delinquents clashing with Israeli troops suggest that Act II of this grisly tragedy has arrived. As the Jewish holiday of Succoth began last week, it appeared as if Israelis and Arabs were being handed the second half of their round-trip ticket back to square one. They will doubtless be returning with little nostalgia...