Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point where the artists were exploiting the record companies." The first to get the word was Bob Dylan. One of the label's superstars for more than a decade, Dylan came up for contract renewal last month and found that he could no longer write his own ticket. He has now signed with David Geffen of Elektra/Asylum...
...link is proving to be a bonanza for U.S. firms; the Chinese import nearly 15 times as much from the U.S. as they export. Among the biggest ticket items to date are some 4,000,000 tons of grain, ten Boeing 707 jetliners valued at $150 million, and eight ammonia plants to be built by M.W. Kellogg Co. for $200 million. The Chinese are also anxious to do business with giant American oil companies such as Exxon, Mobil and Caltex, and makers of petroleum exploration and drilling equipment, including U.S. Steel International, Phillips Petroleum and Baker Oil Tools. Some analysts...
Airline employees will bear the greatest burden in the retrenchment. More than 25,000 of the lines' 300,000 pilots, cabin attendants, mechanics, ticket clerks, baggage handlers, plane cleaners and others will be laid off beginning in January. Among the cockpit casualties: ten former Viet Nam P.O.W.s at Eastern and the first women pilots at American and Eastern, all victims of low seniority...
...Tickets for the Harvard-Cornell hockey game, to be played January 16, not January 14 as previously reported, go on sale at the ticket office Monday, January 14. Coupon #12 may be redeemed...
...Vince Lombardi's editor George L. Flynn could have tacked Lombardi's name onto a posthumous packet of old ticket stubs and made money. Instead, to his credit, Flynn has painstakingly gathered together Lombardi's notes about how to play football and organized them in a remarkable book, faithful to the simple and relentless Lombardi vision of the game. Flynn's presentation is very technical-and properly sweaty. The text is a filigree of football diagrams and terminology not intended for the casual armchair aficionado. But for anyone who is familiar with the intricate levels...