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...think of controlling for these factors says a good deal about his reliability. Incredibly, the entirely of his "evidence" that people who dress better are given better tables at fancy, presumably American, restaurants, comes from a "small experiment" he and some cohorts conducted on the island of Maui...
...delivered a cargo ship, the Maui, to the Matson Navigation Co. in San Francisco. It was one of four Matson had built at three different yards from identical plans. The BIW ship was unquestionably the best. Says AJ. Haskell, Matson's senior vice president and a former Navy officer: "It may sound like I work for them. But look at the fairness of the hull, its smoothness, which is determined by the quality of the welding. You can walk down the pier and compare the Maui with the Kauai, the ship another company built for us. You can immediately...
MARRIED. Richard Pryor, 40, actor-comedian (Bustin' Loose, Stir Crazy), who only 15 months ago nearly perished in a fire; and Jennifer Lee, 29, songwriter and actress (The Sunshine Boys); he for the sixth time, she for the first; in Maui, Hawaii...
Their resentment is only sharpened by the haphazard development of the islands over the past two decades. Between 1970 and 1980, the population of Hawaii registered its greatest increase ever. Around Honolulu, subdivisions have sprung up on land once covered by pineapple plants and sugar cane. On Maui, the once pristine coastline between Lahaina and Kaanapali is now studded with hotels and condominiums. Says Kazu Morita, 62, a third-generation Japanese Hawaiian who owns a gas station on Kauai: "When we were kids, we could go through anybody's property to the sea. Now they've built houses...
...nearly a decade, many Hawaiians have been pushing to reclaim the lands that were seized from their ancestors when the U.S. annexed the islands in 1898. "We were seeing everything slipping out of our hands," recalls Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell, a retired Maui policeman. "The native Hawaiians felt that the only thing they had to hang on to was their land." In 1973 the first of several bills claiming reparations of 2 million acres and $1 billion was introduced in Congress. Hawaiian activists believe that any settlement will have to await the report of a Native Hawaiians Study Commission...