Word: camelback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nuts on the Dueling Dragons--two inverted, high-speed coasters that run in synch and, twice during the two-minute loop-the-loop, come within 2 ft. of crashing into each other. The Ice ride nearly skirts an adjoining castle. The Fire ride is even cooler; it has a camelback dip and lots more delirious twists. As a survivor giddily noted, "it catches you right in the back of the tonsils." And stand in the separate, front-row line to get the ride's full, giddy force; if you're going to fly, you may as well go first class...
...suit focuses on seven investments made by Southwest that accounted for more than $140 million in losses, including $30 million-plus in the 1983 Camelback Esplanade hotel-and-office-building project. Symington, who served on Southwest's board of directors from 1972 until early 1984, was primarily a real estate developer; it was in the latter capacity that he first urged the thrift to invest in the Esplanade project. The RTC suit claims that Symington failed to get the necessary advance approval from federal agencies; that the purchase price was misrepresented to Southwest; and that the deal was unsafe...