Non-Conforming Bedrooms. A room must conform to specific requirements in order for it to be considered a bedroom or sleeping room. The reason for this law is that the inhabitant must be able to quickly escape in case of fire or another emergency. Why would a homeowner use a non-conforming room as a bedroom?
The main islands of Hawaii, the Society Islands and the Windward islands face into the northern trade winds. They were frequent stops during the trade by ship era of history.
balance of trade, trade balance, trade gap, visible balance - the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise; a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports