It is unrealistic to believe that the president, who seems unwilling to drop any of his own big-ticket priorities, like the missile shield, is going to be able to persuade members of Congress to give up theirs.
A year's gift membership of the Crucible, Studio and Lyceum Theatres in Sheffield, for example, costs from £45 and gives ticket discounts, priority booking, invitations to exclusive talks, tours, meet the cast events and 10% discount at the theatre bars and restaurant.
Once inside, they will also be able to use Universal's "express queues" which give e-ticket holders priority when entering various attractions, provided the e-ticket is part of a package arrangement -- with a hotel, for example.
A spokesman for Mr. Coles said about 2,000 people who could not get in yesterday were given tickets for priority entry to a job fair next Thursday.
"It's difficult to argue that all of your season ticket-holders or priority members having a ticket is a bad way of going about it".
A family of four might be offered a free bag allowance, for instance; a businesswoman on a short layover in Chicago, on the other hand, might be sold a ticket that includes priority seating.
Chris Hansen, a hedge-fund manager who along with the Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has the signed agreement with the Maloof family to buy the Kings, countered with a "priority ticket waitlist" for his proposed Seattle arena as a way to show the N.B.A. how much interest there is in taking professional basketball back to the city.
Clubs affiliated to the Rugby Community Ticketing Programme must now wait until 29 May to buy their priority tickets.
Tickets are available via lottery, or you can register here for the chance to get first priority tickets.
