Word: kona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moonie, Kona and Ed Blechner's ten other sled dogs lie inert in the August heat, dreaming, no doubt, of a 50-mile run at 20 below. Blechner, meanwhile, tries to explain his odyssey from Queens to Addison. He has not attended synagogue regularly since late childhood, when, in preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, he walked to shul, or synagogue, and avoided automobiles and telephones on the Sabbath. Then came varsity football at Union College and Outward Bound's Hurricane Island School and a world beyond Great Neck. "I used to feel funny among Jews," he recalls. "I had taken...
...grandson of Japanese immigrants, Onizuka grew up in the village of Kealakekua, on the Kona coast of Hawaii island. As a boy, he worked in the island's rich coffee fields, but his mind was on the stars, which he liked to examine through a telescope at Honolulu's Bishop Museum. The oldest of four children, Onizuka was a star athlete, an honor student and an Eagle Scout. He studied aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees. He then spent eight years as a test pilot and flight engineer with the Air Force...
...Kona R. Sudhakar...
...Hambrecht, a Princeton graduate who grew up on Long Island, N.Y., was a discontented broker working in the San Francisco office of Francis I. du Pont & Co., a now defunct New York City investment firm. One evening he stopped for a drink at the Kona Kai Club in San Diego with George Quist, a friend who was a venture-capital specialist for Bank of America. After commiserating a while over the excessive caution of big companies and consuming two bottles of wine, Hambrecht and Quist decided to launch their own venture-capital fund...
...delighted with your article on "Cooking with Bagasse," covering our alternative energy activities [Sept. 20]. However, the discussion of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) confuses several separate projects. You note the success of the mini-OTEC facility and then state: "But a larger plant built in 1981 off Kailua-Kona, on Hawaii, was a $50 million failure." The larger plant you refer to was a Federal Government project, which was terminated owing to lack of federal funds. Contrary to your statement, Hawaii has not ordered designs for four new 10-megawatt OTEC plants. Rather, the Federal Government has granted awards...