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...This year total revenue stood at approximately $70,000 heading into the weekend,” Mendez says in contrast. “Our walk-up sales were far less than last year, we haven’t broken down the numbers fully as of yet, but it totalled less than...
Ticket sales and donations plummeted this year for the annual figure skating exhibition, which benefits the Jimmy Fund. Last year, organizers had raised $100,000, not counting corporate sponsorships, before the weekend and made another $20,000 in walk-up ticket sales...
...Although China still hasn't joined the World Trade Organization, this deal can be viewed as a WTO walk-up, a signal of what life might be like once China becomes a member. Upon entry, China has agreed to open its Internet market to foreign participation, making possible previously unthinkable arrangements like the AOL-Legend link. And for the communist officials who run China, you can't get much more foreign than AOL Time Warner, a $40 billion company with a broad array of interests in the Internet, movies, cable and publications?none of which hews to a government line...
After that, every time I flew home from school, I would go back to Pilsen and buy a box of 20 dozen tortillas that I would take on the plane and stuff into the tiny freezer of my fifth-floor walk-up on West 108th Street, where I was the first Mexican on the block...
...special blend of fawning and cattiness, what would we watch? Because the other way in which the Oscars have become the Super Bowl for the rest of us is that the tantalizing walk-up is really the show itself, otherwise, you're stuck watching a four-hour, snail-paced foregone conclusion, the only suspenseful element of which is the contents of the chip-dip bowl on your coffee table...