After years of heavy promotions and price wars, consumer packaged goods companies turned to Sweepstakes to influence consumer behavior in favor of prizes or “ gifts ” over changes in price.

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Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.

Increased interest in modern a cappella ( particularly collegiate a cappella ) can be seen in the growth of awards such as the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards ( overseen by the Contemporary A Cappella Society ) and competitions such as the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella for college groups and the Harmony Sweepstakes for all groups.

Dogs from the Anadyr River and surrounding regions were imported into Alaska from 1908 ( and for the next two decades ) during the gold rush for use as sled dogs, especially in the " All-Alaska Sweepstakes ," a 408-mile ( 657-km ) distance dog sled race from Nome, to Candle, and back.

Viewers in the U. S. made slime and water sounds with their mouths and sending in their own entries for the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner to the set of You Can't Do That On Television to be slimed ( which was later replicated by Canada's YTV, with their version being called the Slime Light Sweepstakes ).

* A Sweepstakes is an old-fashioned term ( now usually abbreviated to " Stakes ") for a race in which the winner wins, or " sweeps " the entry fees paid by all the other horses entered.

That was also the second time in school history that they were awarded the Sweepstakes Award for making a Division 1 in all 3 categories of UIL Requirements.

In 2006, however, it received the Sweepstakes Award for Most Outstanding Float In The Parade.

As a gesture to the nostalgic Centennial Era celebration ( 2009 – 2011 ), tickets for the 2009 race donned the moniker " 93rd 500 Mile International Sweepstakes.

Sweepstakes ( which was the last clipper to be built by the Westervelt shipyard ) gained celebrity for her record-breaking seventy-four-day run from New York to Bombay in 1857, and for making the trip between New York City and San Francisco in only 106 days.

Bred by the legendary dog driver Leonhard Seppala from dogs imported into Alaska from eastern Siberia, the Seppala Siberians became famous in Alaska for their domination of the All-Alaska Sweepstakes distance race in the period from 1914 to 1917.

" After the first record, Sadie Benning left the band to be replaced by JD Samson for the follow-up CD Feminist Sweepstakes.

Most recently the team captured the national title at the 2011 Phi Rho Pi tournament and won first place Individual Events Sweepstakes, first place Overall Sweepstakes, as well as the Sylvia Mariner Perpetual Sweepstakes Award for earning accumulative points-an honor Mt.

He also wrote a number of TV game show themes, including The Wizard of Odds ( for which he also sang the vocal introduction ), The Joker's Wild, Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Diamond Head Game, Blank Check, Stumpers !, Whew !, and the original theme to Wheel of Fortune.

The stunt started with an American Flag that covered the entire stands during the National Anthem and was then followed by another stunt which was an advertisement for a Sprint Nextel Fan Sweepstakes.

* Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, the Philippine government's controlled corporation for fundraising

The several teams in the " Deion Sweepstakes ," as it was coined by the media, were the Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys, who had lost their starting cornerback Kevin Smith to injury for the rest of the season.

Soft drink companies also sponsor many sweepstakes, such as the Pepsi Billion Dollar Sweepstakes game and the Pepsi Stuff loyalty rewards program that allowed Pepsi drinkers to accumulate points from packages and cups and redeem them for merchandise.

During its first year of operations, WLIG employed a number of gimmicks to attract viewers, such as a Watch and Win Sweepstakes in which viewers were shown a " code word " on-screen during a particular show and had to send in a postcard with that word for the chance to win a prize, and offering 100, 000 free loop antennas to non-cable viewers who couldn't receive the station clearly.

He had previously made the run from Nome to Nulato in a record-breaking four days, won the All-Alaska Sweepstakes three times, and had become something of a legend for his athletic ability and rapport with his Siberian huskies.

Sweepstakes are often referred to by marketing promoters as second-chance sweepstakes when utilized in conjunction with the awarding of unclaimed prizes during instant-win promotions.

Sweepstakes with large grand prizes tend to attract more entries regardless of the odds of winning.

With Sweepstakes, shoppers can win big prizes like houses, cars, or cruise ship trips or smaller prizes such as gift cards.

CBS and Carruthers only banned the two Michael Larson episodes from being rerun ; however, USA took this a step further, not airing any episodes of the first home player Sweepstakes the episodes landed in.

The race was originally advertised as the " International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race " from 1911 to 1916.

The Brentford Sweepstakes, drawing from Town and Country Magazine ( 13 April 1769 ) satirising the election.

The first major competition was the tremendously popular 1908 All-Alaska Sweepstakes ( AAS ), which was started by Allan " Scotty " Alexander Allan, and ran from Nome to Candle and back.

The CBCP was embroiled in a controversy over millions of pesos in donations from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office at the behest of then president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The popularity of the term sweepstakes may derive from the Irish Sweepstakes, which was very popular throughout the world from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Vestavia Hills High School from AL currently holds the most number of MAO Sweepstakes Awards from the National Convention.

The Woodlands High School choirs perform at UIL and private competitions and festivals, garnering " Sweepstakes " awards as well as " Best of Class " and " Grand Champion " awards from as far away as New York City, and as close to home as San Antonio and Houston.

While the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which runs more than across from Anchorage to Nome, is actually based on the All-Alaska Sweepstakes, it has many traditions which commemorate the race, and especially Seppala and Togo.

The first Chukchi ( Siberian ) dogs had been imported to Alaska in 1908 to run in the 1909 All Alaska Sweepstakes ( a race from Nome to Candle and back ), and a team of Siberians took first place in record time in the annual race in 1910.

In the 1981 episode of WKRP In Cincinnati titled Out To Lunch, Johnny and Venus hand out Irish Sweepstakes tickets to the employees of the station as gifts from a record company rep.

The Sweepstakes required a more complicated exchange of information for each two-way contact that was adapted from the message header structure used by the National Traffic System.

Subsequently, Fred Wolf invented, and obtained U. S. patents on, several new gaming devices which included " Three-special-dice ", and games such as " Sweepstakes Blackjack ", " Fast-action hold ' em ", " Lucky Pan-9 " and " Pai Gow jokers ".

From 1920 to 1980, the race reverted to the " International Sweepstakes " name, or slight variations such as " International Sweepstakes Race, Distance 500 Miles.

Mr. Lady Records released recordings by groups such as Kathleen Hanna's lo-fi group Le Tigre ( who released their first two records – Le Tigre and Feminist Sweepstakes – with Mr. Lady ), punk group The Butchies ( of whom Kaia Wilson is the lead singer ), British group Electrelane, Tara Jane O ' Neil, spoken-word collective Sister Spit ( Sini Anderson and Michelle Tea ), and others.

The concert ensembles and jazz ensemble has earned Sweepstakes trophies at the local and state level and also has earned other recognitions at events outside the state, such as the jazz ensemble coming in 4th place at the Swing Central National Jazz Band Competition at the Savannah Music Festival.