Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuing, however. Factory orders climbed 3.6% in July from a year ago. A robust $1.02 billion rise in consumer credit in July−the highest such increase in eleven months−suggested that Americans are regaining their willingness to borrow in order to buy major appliances and other big-ticket items. One disquieting note: corporations had scaled back their 1975 capital spending plans by $730 million between June and August, meaning that there will be that much less business buying to help finance the rebound from recession...
...Nelson Rockefeller managed further to blur his past image as a big-spending liberal and convince many amazed Southerners that he is really one of their own. In his two stops at Mobile, Ala., and Columbia, S.C., he did not eliminate the conservative opposition to his remaining on the ticket in 1976, but he went far toward moderating...
Admission to athletic events is gained via a ticket book that is passed out around registration time, and which contains direct admission stubs for football games, and stubs which can be traded in for tickets at the ticket office for hockey and basketball...
Apart from inflation, most of the standard indicators of the U.S. economy are showing heartening, and at times surprising strength. For example, July sales of big-ticket appliances were the strongest since last fall, and housing starts during the month surged 14% ahead of June. Government statisticians last week concluded that real output of all goods and services in the second quarter actually rose at an annual rate of 1.6%, rather than falling at a .3% pace as first estimated-an indication that the worst recession in 30 years ended somewhat earlier than had been thought. Superficially, the all-important...
...killed in a Belfast street struggle between young I.R.A. partisans and British troops. The I.R.A. has been trying for years to enlist Hennessy's technical skills in their struggle, but he has always resisted. Even after the tragedy, he remains a loner. He books himself a one-way ticket on the morning flight to London, hides out with the widow of an I.R.A. friend (Lee Remick), and starts putting together his fantastic plot...