Word: crashing
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...racing game, scheduled to open this summer. The government is reclaiming land on an adjoining site to expand the park further. But James Zoltak, editor of Amusement Business, a trade magazine for the theme-park industry, says Disney isn't moving quickly enough: it needs to "get on a crash course in terms of expansion. The rate of building it up has to be swifter than anything they've done at any of their parks...
...racing game, scheduled to open this summer. The government is reclaiming land on an adjoining site to expand the park further. But James Zoltak, editor of Amusement Business, a trade magazine for the theme-park industry, says Disney isn't moving quickly enough: it needs to "get on a crash course in terms of expansion. The rate of building it up has to be swifter than anything they've done at any of their parks...
...story turned stereotypically Kennedy in other ways. He has battled depression, drug addiction and bad publicity, as in 2000 when he argued with a girlfriend aboard a yacht he had chartered; she got the Coast Guard to take her to shore. He later trashed the boat. The car crash last Thursday at about 2:45 a.m. was the most bizarre incident yet. Capitol police officers, who suspected that Kennedy, 38, was drunk, alleged he was given special treatment: a superior told them not to give a sobriety test but to take Kennedy home. (Acting chief Christopher McGaffin later said...
...numerous reports are already surfacing that cast some doubt on that explanation. Roll Call quoted a letter from a Capitol Police union official who urged an investigation into whether Kennedy had received preferential treatment. According to the letter, officers approached Kennedy after the crash, in which he reportedly swerved into the wrong lane through a construction zone and nearly hit a police cruiser. After finally coming to a stop, Kennedy allegedly staggered as he got out of his car and appeared intoxicated. The letter charges that the officers were forbidden from performing a sobriety test on Kennedy under orders from...
...Kennedy car crash could change that, especially if there are indications he received any special deference because he's a Congressman or a Kennedy. After all, Kennedy-bashing is in the DNA of many conservatives and this incident even echoes some aspects of the deadly 1969 Chappaquiddick episode that thwarted Patrick's father's presidential ambitions. And the incident, not suprisingly, is already firing up conservative talk radio...