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...plans are even grander at Disney World, where the company owns 47 sq. mi. of land. Earthmovers are clearing the way for Typhoon Lagoon, a 50-acre water park where visitors will be able to slide down a 95-ft. mountain, surf on 6-ft. waves and snorkel in pools filled with tropical fish. Opening this fall is the Pleasure Island night-life park, complete with rollerdrome, comedy warehouse, teen video club and jazz saloon. Eisner hopes customers will not remember too well the Pinocchio story, in which visitors to a place called Pleasure Island were turned into donkeys...
However valuable its assets, Jardines has been surpassed in size by two other Hong Kong trading firms -- Cheung Kong and Swire -- and has only recently begun to escape from a typhoon of troubles. The company bought or built many of its Hong Kong buildings in the early 1980s, just before real estate values in the colony took a dive. The collapse resulted in part from nervousness about the approach of 1997, when sovereignty over Hong Kong will pass from Britain to China. Wary of that transfer's consequences, Jardines decided in 1984 to shift its legal headquarters to Bermuda...
...Pacific. Two of Hynes' closest friends are killed, leaving him bereft and confused: "I didn't know how a man grieves." Suddenly, the war is over. While waiting for orders to return home, Hynes and his surviving mates are nearly wiped out by a typhoon...
...many ways, the Crash of '87 has been like a sudden, savage typhoon. Major corporations, like large ships, are holding up well, but many small firms could be in real difficulty...
Preacher Jerry Falwell made a big splash last March when he wrested the PTL television ministry from Jim Bakker. Last week the minister made another big splash. Wearing a natty blue suit, Falwell, 54, plunged down the "Killer Typhoon" water slide at PTL's Heritage USA amusement park...