Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moving belatedly to supply funds to equip the nation's airways and airports for the superjet age, and most of the load will fall squarely on the air traveler. By spring Congress is likely to pass legislation to raise nearly $1.8 billion a year in new revenues. The ticket tax on domestic flights will rise from 5% to 8%, and there will be a new "head tax" of $3 on passengers flying overseas and a 2% tax on air freight. The money will be used to improve airways by adding new navigation and communications aids; airports will also be improved...
...bring about such reforms, as well as to prosper politically, Smith made use of his own boundless energy and still legendary powers of persuasion and phrasemaking. "I could run on a Chinese laundry ticket and beat your bunch any time," he once snapped at a hostile Democratic boss. He also could call on quite extraordinary mental abilities -among them a phenomenal memory for detail and a dazzling intuitive grasp of administrative structures...
...meant to say that he wasn't going to use his education the way a lot of people do-as an immediate ticket to a vocation. I'm totally sympathetic with people who don't want to use their education to join the mainstream of society. I'm one of those guys myself," Glassman said...
Guests: Death. Ticket. Hurry...
...stubby executive clad in a redlined cape and a Pierre Cardin jacket buttoned to the chin clambers from a custom-built black Lincoln Continental. With him comes an eyebrow-raising entourage: one male aide and four mini-skirted lasses of Playboy pulchritude. The normally expressionless Swiss faces at the ticket counter light up with half-amused, half-respectful recognition. "It's Bernie," whispers a Swissair hostess to a new colleague. Taking at least two of his curvaceous companions with him, Bernie quickly boards his private Mystère jet. His destination: a London (or sometimes Paris) business appointment...