Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demand for housing sends prices to the sky. Growth critics imagine the West turning into a string of Vail-like resorts, where the rich play and others stay away. Denver's Roman Catholic Archbishop J. Francis Stafford wrote in a pastoral letter last fall, "We risk creating a theme park 'alternate reality' for those who have the money to purchase entrance and around them sprawls a growing buffer zone of the working poor...
Euro Disney looked more the beauty than the beast last week as it announced its first quarterly profit since opening in 1992. The theme park attributed third-quarter earnings of more than $35 million to an enthusiastic public response to price cuts in tickets, food and hotels--and a new Space Mountain roller coaster...
...Kathleen Adams, Nick Catoggio, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart
...Federal Aviation Administration established a special federal air regulation to help restore the "natural quiet" to the Grand Canyon. This was done with the support of the air-tour industry. The new requirements confine aircraft to strictly defined and narrow flight corridors. Today 92% of park visitors report that they are not adversely affected by aircraft sound in the Grand Canyon, and backcountry park visitors report seeing or hearing only one or two aircraft a day. The contention that visitors can't enjoy the park because of the "noisy aerial onslaught" is without factual basis. DAN ANDERSON, President National...
JACK MCDOWELL Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the ball park, he salutes angry fans...