Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worried last week that a "rump Albanian Kosovo" would be just the kind of undernourished state that would unify Albanians in countries such as Macedonia, Greece and Montenegro. That could trigger a push for a Greater Albanian state that would include parts of several nations--a one-way ticket to chaos...
...Increase in the price of the average Major League Baseball ticket since last season...
...Average ticket-price rise for New York Mets fans--the largest increase in the league...
...Serbs--it was a seductive image, one that reached back across 600 years of Slavic victimization and imbued the solid, fleshy-faced and silver-haired man with the mystique of historical destiny. In a nation searching for a post-cold war identity, the aura served as an express ticket to total power. Conducting a new symphony of ethnic hate, Milosevic stepped into the top slot once occupied by Tito. Virtually his first act was to revoke the autonomy Tito had granted to the Albanians in Kosovo. Playing up nationalist passions, Milosevic helped ignite full-scale ethnic rivalry among some...
What's really missing here is the social history that enlivens Jennings' book--a peek into the ways in which legions of real people who never made it to big-ticket events like wars or treaty signings or space-shuttle launches actually spent their days and nights. Perhaps that's something for the Lifetime channel to take...