Meantime Burke has had to slash his budget for new coasters to pare down debt.
For healthy visitors, most theme parks post rider safety guidelines for roller coasters and other rides.
The first roller coasters may have been Russian ice slides built in the late 16th Century.
West Coasters get the shows three hours earlier than usual, but have no way to record them.
While most of us enjoy roller coasters in amusement parks, we find them unsettling in the financial markets.
It will not sweep homes off their foundations, uproot trees, smash cars, carry roller coasters out to sea.
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With spectacular thrill rides debuting around the world, summer 2013 is set to be a noisy season for roller coasters.
At the Joud store in Cairo, distinct images are repeated on mugs, glasses, teacups, trays, jewelry boxes, pillows and coasters.
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Swiss, Dutch or German companies hold sway when it comes to large and expensive roller coasters, but Italians dominate other rides.
Over the centuries, roller coasters have become both more exciting and safer.
Burberry's plaid has already been splashed on everything from umbrellas to coasters.
Philip Mitchell, a chartered mechanical engineer from Leicestershire, who inspects roller coasters and other equipment, said such a tragedy had never occurred before.
In most places if you want to ride world-class roller coasters you have to head to some suburban theme park for the day.
The taverns are not just the main source of profits but also a marketing tool, with brochures and coasters featuring art from other properties.
"Kids who come to my office with ideas scribbled on the back of beer coasters will be turned away at the door, " he says.
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Jenn Suhr wanted to spend their short vacation time in Florida riding roller-coasters at Disney World, while her husband preferred to visit some water parks.
He recounts a dream, a typical Reich piece of socialist agitprop, in which corporate bigwigs riding on roller coasters are throwing their workers screaming overboard.
TurboTax expects another uptick today with traffic highest this evening when west coasters are returning home from work and east coasters are still finishing their returns.
Florida, as so often, is a case all by itself, with a big anti-Castro vote among Latinos offsetting the Democratic leanings of long-standing local blacks and retired east-coasters.
Finance mavens who have made fortunes on Wall Street have always comprised a sizeable fraction of the buying pool, as have West Coasters hailing from the tech sector.
"I've climbed rocks and gone swimming with sharks, but I won't go bungee jumping, and I've never liked roller coasters because those things aren't in my control, " says John F.
Pregnant women are also advised against riding roller coasters.
Although amusement rides are relatively safe overall, individuals with heart conditions should not go on roller coasters, since they can speed up the heart rate and potentially lead to a cardiovascular event.
In 1905, to preserve the country's remaining stocks, a group of well-to-do East Coasters, including Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and Frederic Remington, set up the American Bison Society (buffalo and bison being one and the same).
Chuck Berry, Martha and the Vandellas, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers, James Brown, Lesley Gore, Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, the Kingsmen, the Drifters, Fabian, the Coasters, Little Eva, the Ventures, Sam the Sham.
Capitalising on the chronic insecurity of Americans in matters of taste, she branded herself the ultimate authority on perfect living, be it making coasters from pressed pansies or whipping up dinner for 20 in half an hour.
After years of bumping up the adrenaline for tweens and teens with roller coasters and high-tech rides, Disney is now focusing on the littlest tykes by doubling the size of Fantasyland, the section of the park reserved for the youngest Disney fans.
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