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...swaggered into town to build Europe's first Disney park on old beet fields, confidence was high. "My biggest fear is that we will be too successful," then-chairman Robert Fitzpatrick said. He needn't have worried. Many Europeans decided that Disney's vision of a good time - high ticket prices to get into an alcohol-free park with unbearably long lines and inedibly fast food - didn't match theirs. The company reportedly bled $1 million a day, analysts hinted that bankruptcy was an option and Eisner called the project Disney's "first real disappointment...
...weeks ago, I earned my first-ever speeding ticket. It was an educational experience: I learned, for instance, that police officers often prowl Massachusetts highways in unmarked Ford Expeditions; that batting your eyes and acting apologetic will succeed only if you happen to be female (my beard didn’t help, obviously); and that this fair state charges $50 for the first ten miles over the speed limit, $10 for every mile thereafter, and then tacks on a $25 surcharge for the “head injury trust fund.” Thus, my ticket (handed...
...just the big-ticket villains who wither on closer examination. Ted Bundy, one of the coolest criminal customers in recent memory, was reduced to Jell-O in the final days before his execution, sweatily offering up clues to his other killings if only the state would grant him the stay he suddenly, desperately wanted. Jeffrey McDonald, the Green Beret captain famously tried 20 years ago for the murder of his family, was the very picture of the wrongly accused man, until he took the stand and descended into whining and self-pity - pointing a finger with precisely the kind...
...will it get? You'll still be able to get a ticket, but there will be a new emphasis on putting fewer planes in the air, and you may not get the exact time or seat - or even airport, given the trend toward smaller, less congested hubs - that you'd hoped...
...Then there are the new taxes, like the $10 per ticket charge put into place last fall to help pay for new security measures. Given its purpose, this particular fee is unlikely to ruffle any feathers, but if it is simply the first of many new hikes, passengers could rebel and refuse to fly, further deflating the market...