Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...A.C.C. mayhem is scheduled to end this week with the annual tournament to decide the conference's automatic representative in the N.C.A.A. championships. The fans are already atremble with anticipation, scalpers are busy preparing hefty markups, to $225 or more a ticket, and the teams are mulling over old grudges. Predictably, the team that went into the tourney with the best record has wound up losing the event ten times in its 25-year run. The pain of defeat is not as great as it once was, however, since the N.C.A.A. recently has been inviting two A.C.C. teams...
...they had to go through the formality of arresting him on a civil charge--failure to register for the climb, which entails a $25-to-$30 fine. Bail was set. However, Yates didn't have the money to both pay the bondsman and buy a bus ticket back to Cambridge. Plus, there was the lure of spending a night--on civil disobedience charges--in jail. So jail...
...Harvard graduate degree may be the ticket to a rosy financial future, but it will be a more expensive ticket next year, as eight of Harvard's nine graduate schools announced tution increases ranging from 6.3 to 13 per cent...
...relations between police and blacks in the county: "As it is, the black community has a great deal of negative feelings, fear and fright of the police. Harassment such as police stopping for imaginary traffic violations and then offering the option of jail or a ticket is commonplace...
Three years ago Claggett was cleared of a charge of "excessive force" in the beating of a black man over a $10 traffic ticket...