Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...traditional school calendar was set when children had to help out in the fields and most mothers didn't work outside the home," says Mooresville program supervisor Carol Carroll, who has seen Park View grow from 202 children in 1990 to 1,101 children, representing 49% of the town's grade- school population. "Families today have a completely different life-style. This is a program that works for how we live today...
...schools have attempted to do just that. Beacon Day School, for example, a private school in Oakland, California, operates 240 days a year, with vacations scheduled at parents' leisure. More commonly, however, schools have simply reorganized the traditional 180-day schedule. At Park View, classes run for nine weeks, followed by a three-week break, a schedule known as a 45/15 calendar. Other schools, such as those in the Socorro Independent School District in El Paso County, Texas, use a 60/20 model: 60 days of school followed by 20 days of vacation...
...most successful ventures is Mountasia Enterprises, based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Proprietors Scott and Juli Demerau started their first park in 1986 at an abandoned skateboard center in Mobile, Alabama. Within weeks the crush of visitors forced them to hire traffic police. In six months they had branched out to two more locations. Three years later things were going so well that they decided to get married -- on the miniature golf course at one of their Georgia fun centers. Since their debut, the Demeraus have expanded their original investment of $450,000 into an amusement empire that includes 26 parks...
...recovery that increased annual revenue more than $7 billion in 10 years. Wells was the detail-oriented negotiator who framed the deals for Disney's acquisitions and tended to the nuts and bolts of the business. Eisner was the company's intellectual incubator, dreaming up new projects, overseeing theme-park expansion and, in his own words, acting as the company's main "cheerleader." So close were the two men that each was said to dash into the other's office as many as 15 times a day. On the weekend after Wells died, Eisner found himself picking up the phone...
...double blow to Disney management comes at a time when the company is wrestling with several nagging problems. The biggest is its theme parks, which account for 40% of the company's gross revenues. The Euro Disney park outside Paris, for instance, was losing so much money ($900 million in its first year alone) that it had to be rescued by a Saudi prince who agreed to invest $400 million in new equity. Even so, penny-pinching guests are still skimping on food, hotel rooms and merchandise, which is slowing Disney's plans in the area for offices, shopping centers...