Premier Parks originally operated as the Tierco Group, Inc., an Oklahoma-based real estate company.

Since Tierco was on its way to becoming a " premier " regional theme park operator, in 1994 it changed its name to Premier Parks, Inc. Kieran E. Burke, chairman and chief executive officer ( CEO ), noted that the new name signified the beginning of a new era for the company.

At the end of 1994, Premier Parks acquired an agreement to manage Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colorado which had just relocated from outside the city.

Premier Parks also added water parks to Darien Lake, Lake Compounce ( right before selling it ), Elitch Gardens, and Great Escape in 1995 and 1996.

Premier Parks also made plans to acquire more parks and wound up buying a larger corporation late that year.

Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc. was purchased in whole on April 1, 1998 from Time Warner by Premier Parks for $ 1. 86 billion.

In 2000, Premier Parks assumed the Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc. name and continued re-branding its parks, most notably the former Geauga Lake into Six Flags Ohio.

The Walibi parks, including Bellewaerde in Belgium, were purchased by Premier Parks Inc. in 1998, who subsequently overhauled the Flevo park, removing the ' Walibi ' branding and building 30 new attractions as part of its transformation into Six Flags Holland in 2000.

That coaster was sold to Premier Parks, which at the time was a different company than Six Flags ( but would eventually buy Six Flags ).

Premier Parks purchased Six Flags from Time Warner and Boston Ventures on April 1, 1998.

In 1995, growing regional park chain Premier Parks bought Funtime and its three owned parks.

In 1998, Premier purchased Six Flags Theme Parks, and began to rebrand its own parks as Six Flags.

2000 brought the reforming of Premier Parks, assuming their new name, Six Flags Inc. and a drop in the addition of new attractions.

A corporate deal in 1995 saw Premier Parks acquiring Funtime, giving Geauga Lake a new owner.

Premier Parks invested $ 9 million in new rides, including the Mind Eraser ( a steel looping shuttle Boomerang roller coaster ) and Grizzly Run, a water rapids ride designed by Intamin.

In 1998, Premier Parks purchased Six Flags from Time Warner.

Premier Parks re-branded Geauga Lake in 2000 as Six Flags Ohio.

In 1998, Time Warner sold its interests in the Six Flags parks to Premier Parks of Oklahoma City, which later changed its name to Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc.

Time Warner sold its interests in the Six Flags parks to Premier Parks of Oklahoma City, which later changed its name to Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc.

In 1997, Kentucky Kingdom was sold to Premier Parks, which in 1998 purchased Six Flags Theme Parks from Time Warner.

According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.

By-passing the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow of Premier Adnan Menderes 17 months ago, the army general staff, led by Gen. Cedvet Sunay, had set a deadline for the parties to join in a national coalition government.

The President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning back.

Many states have Arbor Day although only Victoria has Arbor Week, which was suggested by Premier Dick Hamer in the 1980s.

And Curbishley rewarded the chairman's loyalty with the Division One title in 2000 which signalled a return to the Premier League.

In the UK, most Premier League or Football League football clubs have one or more fanzines which supplement, oppose and complement the club's official magazine or matchday programme.

Finally, teams from the Premier League and Football League Championship enter at the Third Round Proper, at which point there are 64 teams remaining in the competition.

The Premier League is a corporation in which the 20 member clubs act as shareholders.

The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League, which was originally founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal.

The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power, this was last fully exercised in 1932, when Sir Philip Game dismissed Premier Jack Lang.

Besides the bid for an AFL club which was passed over in favour of a second Queenland team, despite several major local businesses and the Premier pioneering for a club, there is also a Hobart bid for entry into the A-League.

Serie A is ranked 4th among European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient behind the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, and German Bundesliga, which is based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions League and the Europa League.

Newcastle finished runners-up in both the Premier League and FA Cup during his first season, but they could only finish 13th in 1997 – 98, which led to his dismissal the following season.

By the turn of 1992 they were top of the Second Division, and then suffered a dip in form before recovering to qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new Premier League by beating Leicester City 1 – 0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley.

Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.

Before Stalin's death, Beria was appointed First Deputy Premier and reappointed head of the MVD, which he merged with the MGB.

Nouakchott's authorities declared that the government would likely seek international arbitration, which Woodside ( which operated for Hardman, BG Group, Premier, ROC Oil, Fusion, Petronas, Dana Petroleum, Energy Africa and the Hydrocarbons Mauritanian Society ) also contemplated.

20 teams compete in the Premier Limited-Overs Tournament, which is an expansion from 16 in the last season.

By convention, the party or political grouping which has majority support in the House of Assembly will nominate its leader to be Premier.

The Premier has an office in the Executive Annexe of Parliament House, Brisbane, which is normally used while Parliament is sitting.

When Premier Cahill died on 22 October 1959, he was replaced by Askin's friend and parliamentary contemporary, Robert " Bob " Heffron, which tended to calm his aggression and opposition towards the government.

This was followed by David Hickie's book " The Prince and The Premier ", which detailed Askin's long involvement in illegal bookmaking and the allegations that he had received substantial and long-running payoffs from organised crime figures.

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.