Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to wait for cheaper space on NASA'S booked-up space shuttle. Hannah says a dozen energy companies are interested (they might conduct geological surveys from space), and SSI hopes to have commercial satellites orbiting two years from now, and monthly launches from a planned Hawaiian...
...flyspecked, New York City dime-a-dance hall in 1913, to a nationwide chain of dance studios, to national prominence on television's The Arthur Murray Party, a ratings winner in the 1950s, to a seemingly choreographed game of doubles with his wife Kathryn on courts near their Hawaiian home below Diamond Head, the former Broadway hoofer has always kept both feet on the ground. His professional foxtrotting days behind him, although he still takes a turn on the dance floor, Murray may now be the oldest money manager in the U.S. Handling a $15 million portfolio for himself...
...made lagoons. Two of them are for swimming (one for families and single women and one for single men). The third is for boating. Eventually, the marina will be landscaped with a winding boardwalk as well as shade gazebos and date palms, giving the area the appearance of a Hawaiian resort...
This is why buck passing among equals is a lesser form of the art. After Pearl Harbor, Admiral Kimmel, commander of the U.S. Fleet, and Major General Short, commander of the Army's Hawaiian department, had a field day blaming each other and Washington for unpreparedness, but since all were culpable, there was no real art in the show. The same fandango is going on in Spain these days, with the generals on trial for treason frantic to pin last year's failed coup on each other. The buck may also be passed to superiors, as Nuremburg made...
None of us can quite figure out when this obsession with the Forty-Niners began. It must have started some time this summer, though, because when we returned to school this fall, gone were the posters of California surfers, Hawaiian sunsets and her beloved golden retriever. In their place were Forty Niner team schedules, individual pictures of the players, and a monstrous poster of the team in its full splendor. Forty-Niner pennants decorated her bulletin board, and Sunday afternoons were devoted to tracking down the Forty-Niner results, preempting all other television shows if the team happened...