Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While traffic at the parks was robust, new attractions were needed to lure repeat customers. When Eisner and company took over, some rides were growing corny with age, especially in the Tomorrowland section of the parks, as real- life events were surpassing Disney's futurism. Says Eisner: "The park has to be extremely contemporary. If it's not, the kids won't think it's a rad place to be. If it's not innovative, then intelligent people will be bored or go somewhere else...
...family, and I ask the Kuwaiti authorities to free the prisoners. Otherwise the kidnapers will kill us." Throughout, the skyjackers defended their actions. "We are men of principle, not highway bandits," one asserted. "We would have preferred not to use such methods, but we have no choice. We repeat our demand for the liberation of our 17 brothers, and we will not go back on that even if the price is very high...
Sometimes, you just don't want history to repeat itself, but it does anyway...
...Instead of the simplistic view that sees the civil rights movement and the Vietnam protests as having achieved permanent structural change for the better, I see the sixties in conjunction with a Reagan administration which wants to veto further civil rights legislation and which appears all too willing to repeat the stupidities of the past. I see a struggle which takes place over decade, and in which the gains of the sometimes violent and enthusiastic protests of the past are easily lost, if they are not fought for again and again, every...
...most honored and distinguished residents of the city. Among the visitors is Florentino Ariza, 76, president of the River Co. of the Caribbean, who approaches the bereaved widow, Fermina Daza, 72, and says, " I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love." Fermina furiously shows him the door...