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Possible Disney Ownership Change Unsettles Orlando, Fla., Leaders, Workers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2004
The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 15--Disney and Orlando have been together so long their names merge in people's minds, like some old married couple: JimandJanet. GregandSusan. OrlandoandDisney.
"It's one and the same -- 100 percent," said Marty Schluns, a 46-year-old mechanic from West Virginia who has been coming to Orlando every other year for 10 years.
It's the same relationship that other company towns have between the community and the largest employer. What is Bentonville, Ark., without Wal-Mart or Hershey "Chocolate Town," Pa., without the Hershey Food Corp.?
"Disney has given our community an identity. It has touched us all," said Maureen Brockman, vice president for marketing with...
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