Word: ticketeer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...departed from the traditional script. He impulsively grabbed Jimmy Carter's hand and held it high. They looked like a pair of politicians just nominated by a national convention, and there was little doubt about which man thought he was running at the head of the ticket...
...ticket...
White House staffers could scarcely attend to preparations for the summit meetings, so besieged were they by calls from would-be banqueters. "People will kill for a ticket to the state dinner," declared one amused businessman. Sighed a senior White House official: "If we invited everyone who claims an undeniable right to come, we'd have to hold the damn thing in the Capital Center"?a reference to Washington's 19,000-seat sports arena...
...more heavyweight property dealers gather together once a month for what they call market day. For hours they huddle and haggle around a group of video monitors set up on the floor of the burgeoning American Real Estate Exchange (AMREX). Across the screens flash capsule descriptions of big-ticket real estate offerings (minimum asking price: $250,000) whose total value on a given day may reach more than a billion dollars. Some of the items on the block at last month's market day an interest in an $80 million Palm Springs Calif, resort, a British island...
...been a money loser. Yet people in towns and cities that benefit from the service have made their will felt on Capitol Hill. Government subsidies have steadily swelled, reaching $779 million in the last fiscal year, or about $2 in federal funds for every $1 taken in at Amtrak ticket windows. Insisting that Amtrak will have to improve its management and save money, OMB proposed that the subsidy be cut to $634 million...