Word: aloha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard football coach Joe Restic will serve as an assistant coach for the East team in the 38th annual Hula Bowl All-Star classic on January 7, 1984 in Honolulu at the Aloha Stadium...
...Aloha and goodbye: compared with his native Milwaukee, Honolulu must have seemed like Fantasy Island. He came in 1977 to start a new life. He promptly hooked up with Real Estate Salesman Sunlin Wong and created an investment firm grandly named Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham & Wong. Rewald and Wong, however, were the only unmisleading names on the company's letterhead. The others were included to convince investors that the firm was connected to Hawaii's old-line, blue-chip Bishops, Baldwins and Dillinghams, which it was not. Says one local businessman: "It was as if he arrived...
...Lots of Aloha...
...lifelong Hawaii resident, I read with concern your article "We've Lost the 'Aloha' Feeling" [June 1]. As you reported, two teenagers recently hijacked a busload of Japanese visitors. However, you failed to mention that the community contributed more than $22,000 to assist the victims, a sum twice that lost in the robbery. Later, when the stolen cash and valuables were returned, the Japanese donated the money to a special fund to assist visitors who become victims. No, the aloha feeling has not been lost...
...still perfumes the air. Yet amid its travel-brochure lushness, Hawaii is struggling to cope with a surge in crime, a slump in tourism and the social strains caused by two decades of rapid growth. Laments Honolulu Mayor Eileen Anderson: "We've lost the feeling of 'Aloha' for one another...