Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue" (the chador, or all-enveloping veil), and admonished students to go back to school and factory workers to stop their agitation. In an emotional appeal for a return to national sanity, Bazargan said, "We have passed a number of mountains, but we still have not reached the promised land...
...water." There are lao (valley of dawning inspiration), Kapilau (sprinkle of rain on leaves), Lanilili (rippling surface) and Waiakoa (waters used by warrior). Kaanapali is "rolling cliffs." It is comforting when boating off Wailea to know that the "waters [are] governed by Lea," goddess of canoe making. Lahaina is "land of prophecies...
...occupancy rate of well over 90%, a phenomenon that actually distresses the hoteliers because they hardly have time to change the sheets between check-out and checkin. Not at all unhappy are the property developers who are dotting condominiums around the hotels on what was useless brush and mesquite land a few years ago. If Maui in the past century was ravaged by diseases brought in by outsiders, the island today is in the throes of a more benign importation. It could be called condo fever. Symptoms:-More than 1,000 people gathered at Kapalua last July to engage...
...kidding you, we just can't build 'em fast enough." Francis Blackwell, 54, Boston-born executive director of the Maui County Visitors Association, boasts: "We have more millionaires per capita than any other place in the country, including Palm Springs." To which Kapalua Land Co.'s Oregon-born vice president, Michael Gallagher, 36, adds: "How many more rich people can there be in the world? Where can they be? It's frightening...
Olympian Bobby Hackett is a strong lure but he will leave after two more seasons. So this is the year that Harvard must land several top recruits if the drive toward national prominence is to be continued...