Word: ticket
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...circuit spiked, audiences have sagged and theaters themselves have become more scarce. Declining box office receipts have resulted in a subdued festival marketplace, where lucrative acquisitions seem to be a thing of the past. For every art-house blockbuster like Juno (which took in $229 million globally) or big-ticket festival purchase like Hamlet 2 (picked up at Sundance in January for a reported $10 million), there are hundreds of films floundering and forgotten on the fringe...
...bond and anxiously wait each morning for their daily conversations. But when their children step in, the two find that their lives and their friendship are not entirely under their control. In Mr. Shi’s case, his daughter has run out of tolerance and booked him a ticket for a cross-country bus tour without his counsel or consent. In Madam’s case, her children hastily ship her off to a nursing home. In each instance, the central conflict is ageism, not racism. Half of the film is taken up by Mr. Shi trying to talk...
...notes that some master plumbers (about five to seven years experience) at the Cincinnati-based company make in excess of $100,000 a year. "A good plumber can pretty much write his ticket and make a good living with a good amount of experience," Abrams says. The outsourcing boom that has sucked information technology jobs overseas, coupled with a dearth of workers in plumbing - a somewhat recession-resistant market - makes for an industry ripe for growth. As for Wurzelbacher, based on the region of the country he works in, the amount of experience he has, and the fact that...
...workers; PepsiCo, which reported falling sales in the U.S., is chopping 3,300 jobs worldwide. Demand for Samsung's DRAM chips is dropping. The retailer Linens'n Things is closing its remaining 371 stores, eliminating 17,000 jobs. The NBA is laying off 80 people, citing slower ticket sales...
...Selling tickets, says Pitches president Annie E. P. Stone ’10, is difficult, especially in the spring when the novelty has started to wear off even for new freshmen. “Everyone on campus knows someone in an a cappella group and they’re always being pestered to buy a ticket,” she explains...