[ noun ] a Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman <noun.act>
Home Shopping has unsettled many investors and industries mainly because no one knows whether video retailing is a fad, like the hula hoop, or the beginning of a new industry, as the silicon chip proved to be.
As the toy industry consolidates and once-hot companies vanish like spent hula hoops, Mattel has rebounded to become one of the fastest-growing and most fashionable toy companies on Wall Street.
Also on display is the hula skirt Sam Walton donned for his "dance on Wall Street," which he performed after the company met his challenge to reach a record 8 percent pre-tax profit in 1984.
The Tennessee Special Olympics will benefit from the competitive efforts of Charley Pride, Juice Newton and Alabama's Randy Owen and other country music stars in a battle of hula hoops, brooms and volleyballs.
We bought the man a new bicycle and did a hula dance at the police station, and they let us go," she said.