Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessity of charging spectators for future home games in conjunction with added frills to bolster gate receipts. He feels, for example, a raffle with lucrative prizes at home games would turn out the fans even if a minimal admission fee was charged. In addition, a $5 season ticket package would also be an alluring attraction...
...millionaire garage contractor, has already spend enough money to buy the Capitol dome in his biennial attempts to win a seat of his own. And O'Dwyer, a die-hard politico, has maneuvered his way through an entire dormitory of strange bedfellows in his continuing pursuit of a free ticket to Washington. Of course, neither ever succeeds, but neither do they ever admit defeat. Campaigning has become for them, as for so many others, an end in itself, a way to fame and happiness without ever actually winning. In politics, it often seems that persistence is its own reward...
...tung learned about her as Lan P'ing, the actress, not long after she arrived. How could she tell? He sought her out personally and offered her a ticket to a lecture he was to give at the Marxist-Leninist Institute. Startled and awestruck, she declined, then swiftly conquered her shyness, accepted the ticket, and went to watch him perform...
Ryan and Cozza intend to initiate an increased emphasis on promoting football games. Cozza is comtemplating hiring a full-time promotion director for the Eli eleven and increasing ticket outlets...
Sources at the Red Sox ticket office report that sales are going pretty well and that there are still reserved seats left for the Yankees games...