Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese have bought eleven hotels that account for 11% of Hawaii's 36,000 rooms, and they have two other hotels under construction. Among the Japanese-owned hotels: the Hawaiian Regent, the Surfsider and the Imperial Hawaiian. They have bought two Honolulu golf courses and some 3,000 acres of resort development land on the big island of Hawaii...
...conglomerate, says: "The Japanese investors provide needed capital for a perennially money-short economy, as well as jobs for our local labor and revenues for our hard-up government coffers." For their part, the Japanese have been surprised by all the fuss. After discussions with a delegation of concerned Hawaiian businessmen in Tokyo, some of the Japanese investors agreed that they had to mix more with the Hawaiians and become more involved in community affairs and projects...
...doing, until we go haywire. It's quite amazing he lasted as long as he did. Even before I appear in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is surrounded by quite a cast of characters. Harry LeSabre, his salesman, is a sometime transvestite who expresses his women's clothes fetish during Hawaiian Week at Dwayne Hoover's Exit Eleven Pontiac Village. Francine Pefko, Dwayne's mistress, thinks she is his mother. Bunny is Dwayne's homosexual son. There are more. These three are easily enough to strip the gears of any normally functioning machine...
...into a kind of "shallow, rubbery dimple." He climbed from dimple to dimple toward the office in his Pontiac showroom. The ground was steady there, but he could not understand why the place was full of plastic palm trees. His bad chemicals had made him forget that this was Hawaiian Week. Then he saw his sales manager approaching in a grass skirt and a pink T shirt that said "Make Love Not War." The sales manager greeted Dwayne by saying "Aloha...
Death Toll. The CDC does not believe that the current outbreak will become an epidemic, but the flu is making its presence felt. The Massachusetts state health department has reported that school absenteeism has climbed as high as 20% in some sections of the state. Hawaiian authorities have noted a substantial increase in influenza-like disease on the island of Oahu, particularly among teen-agers and young children. No area appears to have been harder hit than northern California. Since Dec. 20, health authorities in Santa Clara County have blamed 20 deaths, mainly among the elderly, on pneumonia, a frequent...