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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ticketing, or electronic ticketing, is "much easier" than purchasing tickets over the telephone, according to a United Airlines representative who asked to remain anonymous. According to the representative, E-tickets have become the "preferred method of ticketing" because all one needs is a destination in mind, a credit card in hand and a computer at your fingertips. To purchase an E-ticket, a customer logs onto an on-line reservation service, selects the departure city, destination city and date of travel and then types his or her credit card number onto an encrypted web page. The E-ticket becomes reserved...

Author: By Scott A. Penner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: E-Tickets: Alternative For Airline Travel? | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

However, Roberta Saltzberg of Great Escape Travel in Cambridge says there are many potential drawbacks to E-ticketing. According to Saltzberg, one disadvantage lies in the public's lack of familiarity with E-ticketing. "Most people seem to feel more secure with a ticket in their hand," she says...

Author: By Scott A. Penner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: E-Tickets: Alternative For Airline Travel? | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard men's hockey team had just beaten Colgate for the second straight night, earning the team a ticket to Lake Placid next weekend. It wasn't just the two wins, since after all Harvard was the higher seed, but rather the way in which the team secured its berth into the next round of the ECAC playoffs...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Crowds Pack It In, Pack It Up at Bright | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...some reason, despite the four-dollar ticket prices, fans found their way across the river, and for the first time in a long time, Harvard hockey reverted back to the days when home ice really meant something. Not only were there bodies in the stands, but there were screaming, jeering students who actually made their presence known...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Crowds Pack It In, Pack It Up at Bright | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...Award for Best Comedy of 1996 and provided a vehicle for such fine actors as Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay. It has been eagerly awaited by Broadway: finally, in a season when big musicals are getting all the buzz, a straight play with a chance of becoming a hot ticket. The U.S. cast boasts at least one marquee name--Alan Alda, who plays Marc with a few too many sitcom inflections--along with two solid co-stars, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina. Director Matthew Warchus' sleek, mod production (a white set dominated by three chairs and a coffee table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three-Finger Exercise | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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