Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Statehood brought Hawaii Sizeable increases in funds for education, housing and transportation, but these benefits lately have been offset by a meteoric rise in environmental problems, militarism and in-migration by mainland Americans...
...Hawaii remains a strategic defense link for the United States and will continue to do so even though defense plant reductions and consolidations are taking place at many locations of the mainland," the report said...
RECENT bickering between shipping managers and longshoremen (both within mainland-owned firms like Seatrain and Hawaiian companies with large mainland interests) has resulted in several labor strikes that have crippled Hawaii...
...state, where more than 60 per cent of its goods and food is imported from the mainland, suffered 220 days of interrupted shipping since 1971 due to strikes in the West Coast...
...deal with a concurrent population growth crisis, state leaders have appealed to Washington for a constitutional amendment to limit in-migration in Hawaii by mainland Americans...