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DIED. Chinn Ho, 83, pioneering Hawaiian financial tycoon; of a heart attack; in Honolulu. Starting in high school as a pencil and thermometer salesman, Ho built a real estate empire that stretched from California to Hong Kong. Ho, the first man of Asian ancestry to be named president of the Honolulu stock exchange, was also the putative model for Hong Kong Kee, the wily businessman who outsmarts the white hierarchy in James Michener's Hawaii...
...even make it in the patriarchal establishment, you impotent scum," said Jill, ramming a pencil through Johnny's bleeding heart, which was now only difference...
...high schooler, with mental pencil poised above mental note-pad, hears only, "Co-ed, Harvard Yard, entry-ways, proctor groups, Houses, River, Radcliffe;" 'Co-ed, Sweet...
...ordered the usual 10 bowling trophies, two dozen gold electroplated thermometers and three personalized combination-pen-pencil- business-card-holder-paper-weights...
...running at a roughly 6% annual clip, get completely out of hand. His remarks seemed aimed at the policies of the once influential Hu, who last week was re-elected / to the 157-member presidium that heads the People's Congress. Seated directly behind Zhao, Hu clutched a red pencil during the attack, underlining the prepared text of the Premier's speech and keeping his eyes riveted to the copy...