Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airlines have in essence tricked passengers into subsidizing the industry's whopping 63% jump in profits for the first half of this year. The hefty $1.5 billion in earnings poured in after the budget impasse allowed a 10% sales tax on ticket prices to lapse on Jan. 1. Instead of passing on this tax break to travelers, carriers pocketed the money. This silent fare boost accounted for nearly half the increase in pretax profits that the eight largest airlines reported for the first six months, according to analyst Brian Harris of Lehman Brothers. The tax, which goes to the Aviation...
...already wondering if he can be counted on to soft-pedal his differences with the candidate on immigration and affirmative action. And by his very incandescence and ambition, his untiring knack for putting himself out front, there's the danger that he will effectively turn the Dole-Kemp ticket into Kemp-Dole...
...worked on Kemp's 1988 presidential campaign and then served him as chief of staff when Kemp became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under George Bush. But at that early meeting, neither Kemp nor Reed was able to take seriously the prospect of Kemp's joining the ticket. The ideological gap between Dole and Kemp was too wide and there had been too much bad blood between them...
...supply-side philosophy and belief in the power of free markets with Kennedy's youthful vigor and populist-patrician manner to create a new kind of Republican. Now Bob Dole is hoping that Kemp's blend of Kennedy charisma and cheerful Reaganomics can persuade voters to give the Republican ticket another look...
...brown. He joked about his Thursday night speech: "I came 20 minutes early because I don't have to practice my speech any more." For now, though, Dole is officially at the head of an uphill struggle. Recent polling numbers reflect a convention-spurred bounce that puts the Dole ticket only 10 or 12 points behind Clinton's campaign. But President Clinton will get his chance to widen that lead when the Democratic convention begins in Chicago August 26. Some of the campaign battle lines are already manifest in the nationwide thrust-parry-counterthrust of TV campaign commercials...