Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some students see a summer on a college campus as a ticket to freedom. But students in Harvard Summer School's Secondary School Program (SSP) have found that college officials can be just as strict...
...will buy the $25 ticket and give you the $50 bus ride," Grubbs continued, voice rising as if he were in some kind of auction. "We are going to have the biggest tent up there... Four national entertainers. We haven't picked them yet, but they will be big-name entertainers... The television networks are going to be there... We are going to have a great barbecue to which you are all invited free. We may have balloon rides. And bring your families if you want to. There is going to be entertainment for the kids, face painting and games...
...Sans that no one bothered to empty? The formidable mounds of garbage that no one collected? The rip-off prices--$4 for a bottle of water, $7.50 for a chicken sandwich? In retrospect, it seems odd that rock fans would travel halfway across the country and pay $150 a ticket to be treated worse than illegal Cuban refugees...
...House of Representatives grounded the ultrasophisticated F-22 fighter jet last week by passing a military-spending bill that withholds funding for the planes, which run about $187 million each. Rest assured, however, that the U.S. military does not want for big-ticket items. It has--or is getting--some of the most expensive planes, subs and helicopters in the world, including these top-priced babies...
Speech coaches, contact lenses, makeup and hairstyling were part of that education. When gubernatorial candidate Parris Glendening chose her to be his running mate in 1994, experts doubted she would help the ticket. But her name recognition--this time she used Kennedy Townsend--and her fund-raising skills proved them wrong...