Snyder Takes Stake in Six Flags
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Pressure from Microsoft chairman and shareholder Bill Gates over a sagging financial outlook and news that Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has bought nearly 9 percent of Six Flags, Inc. drove the amusement park company's shares up more than 25 percent Tuesday.
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By Novotney, Steve  WHEELING - After more than five years of proposing, fundraising and generating public support, the Wheeling skatepark project has been placed on schedule for completion by City Manager Robert Herron.
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Joseph E. Robert Jr., a prominent Washington area investor, and the family of real estate developer Oliver T. Carr Jr. plan to take parts of businesses they control public.
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Movies, music, and more are part of Six Flags' investment in Dick Clark's empire.
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A quarter of a billion dollars to build the track. Tens of millions in racing fees. More than 150,000 live spectators and a television audience of hundreds of millions.
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Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has created a way for fans to vault over the 75,000 names on the waiting list for season tickets and get prime seats.
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By Staff and Wire Reports  Liberty Media Corp. will gain control over the satellite television broadcaster DirecTV Group Inc.
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Six Flags Great Adventure is opening the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster this spring &#151; a thrill ride that accelerates to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds and rises 456 feet off the ground.
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GEORGETOWN, Del., Nov. 16 -- In January 1996, Walt Disney Co. executives took a field trip to the company's theme park in Orlando. In keeping with tradition, the Disney brass, including chief executive Michael D. Eisner, rode around the park together in buses.
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The coming of Main Street America, a proposed four-season amusement park, has folks all abuzz in Michigan's north woods around Grayling.
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LOS ANGELES  - "300" director Zack Snyder is sharpening his pencil for "The Illustrated Man," a project based on the Ray Bradbury collection of short stories.
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From Super Bowl to job interview. From ticker-tape parade in Manhattan to Dan Snyder's house along the Potomac River, via the Washington Redskins owner's private plane. It's already been quite a week for Steve Spagnuolo.
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Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder yesterday purchased the company behind the Golden Globe Awards show and Dick Clark's "American Bandstand," adding to Snyder's entertainment portfolio that includes movies, amusement parks and a 1950s-themed hamburger chain.
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Regional amusement park Six Flags is just getting started with CEO Mark Shapiro's sophomore season.
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. agreed to buy the brands including Altoids mints and Life Savers for $1.48 billion from Kraft Foods Inc., its biggest acquisition ever, to expand its share of the candy market.
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There are six reasons to get excited about Six Flags next year.
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MICHEL DAVID-WEILL has approved a flotation of Lazard that values the investment bank his family founded at $3.4 billion. The approval is on condition that Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street dealmaker running the firm, resigns if the deal fails.