Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dressed in khakis and a Hawaiian shirt, Dukakis kept the first event of the Kennedy School's "Summer in Boston" program informal, engaging in a lengthy question-and-answer session with the audience of summer school students after his short address...
Gates has amassed a net worth of more than $10 billion, making him either the richest or the second richest man in America, depending on the closing price of his 141 million shares. He was married last year on the Hawaiian island of Lanai; the wedding was attended by publisher Katharine Graham and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett. He is building a $40 million-plus home on suburban Seattle's Lake Washington, with video "walls" to display an ever changing collection of electronic art, a trampoline room with a 25-ft. vaulted ceiling where he can burn off steam...
...allowed to sail the boat during a race, was chosen from 678 applicants after rigorous tryouts. Among them: eight Olympic athletes, two women who sailed through hurricane-force winds and icebergs in the Whitbread, a world-class weightlifter who coaches the University of Washington Huskies football team, a native Hawaiian who sailed a 60-ft. canoe using Polynesian wayfinding, an aerospace engineer, and three mothers of small children. As impressive and eclectic as the women are, however, only two are experienced in big-boat match racing. By contrast, virtually all the members of the men's teams have that critical...
...Hawaii's plan was 25 pages, it's simple and it works," Dukakis said. "If I were president, I would draft a national version of the Hawaiian plan but with a cost control mechanism...
...Hawaii native Marlene M. Ching '98, who attended the discussion, said Dukakis overemphasized the positive benefits of the Hawaiian system...