Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Local businesses and governments responded quickly. In Orlando, Disney World's Magic Kingdom pulled the drawbridge at least partway up, closing swimming pools and water parks an hour before sunset, when the skeeter dinner bell usually sounds. On Long Island, officials considered similar action, including closing parks until the danger subsides. Though the alert is, so far, more scare than scourge, nobody dismisses it. Says Dr. David Graham, an epidemiologist for New York's Suffolk County: "We want to take precautions...
...ORLANDO, Fla: The most frightening thing at Disney World used to be Space Mountain. Now, it's mosquitoes. After Florida health officials sounded the alarm this week that some of the blood-sucking critters may carry St. Louis encephalitis ? a virus-born ailment which damages the brain ? the company decided to close its three water parks and swimming pools an hour early each day, to protect sunbathing vacationers during peak feeding time. Meanwhile Mickey and Goofy will continue to work full shifts at Disney's three theme parks, where spraying has already taken place. Not taking any chances, the Magic...
...brother is dead. They called me and told me he is in a hotel room near La Guardia Airport. I don't know what to do." The distraught woman on the other end of the phone line pleaded with Orlando Tobon, or "Don Orlando" as he is known in the tight-knit neighborhood of Colombian immigrants in the Jackson Heights district of New York City...
...beef ranch in the world is not the King Ranch in Texas. It is the Deseret Cattle & Citrus Ranch outside Orlando, Fla. It covers 312,000 acres; its value as real estate alone is estimated at $858 million. It is owned entirely by the Mormons. The largest producer of nuts in America, AgReserves, Inc., in Salt Lake City, is Mormon-owned. So are the Bonneville International Corp., the country's 14th largest radio chain, and the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., with assets of $1.6 billion. There are richer churches than the one based in Salt Lake City: Roman Catholic holdings...
...Memphis (opening act: folksinger Jewel, "the kind of entertainer," an EPE spokesman maintained, "Elvis would have selected were he alive today"). The company hopes that similar clubs, all serving the deep-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches Elvis adored (as well as more healthful fare), will follow in Orlando, Fla., and New York City--not to mention an entire Elvis mini-resort in Las Vegas...