Word: peat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year was 1989. Wielding sledgehammers, picks and shovels, thousands of freedom-loving Germans brought down the Berlin Wall, the symbol of Eastern isolation and oppressive communism. The same year, throwing elbows and fists, the Detroit Pistons brought the Los Angeles Lakers' hopes of a three-peat crashing down as well...
...year is 1993. Wielding jack-hammers and driving bulldozers, construction workers have brought down the walls of Matthews Hall, the mice-infested abode at the corner of the Yard. The same year, another Bad group has ended the hopes of a team in search of its three-peat...
...press bombarded the White House with charges of cronyism and hubris. The release of the audit of the office by the accounting firm Peat Marwick documenting serious abuses and the FBI'S decision to move forward with a criminal investigation did not reduce the reporters' outrage. Nor did the White House's move to sever its tie with World Wide and contract temporarily with American Express...
...Chile. A team led by University of Kentucky archaeologist Tom Dillehay discovered indisputable traces there of a human settlement that was inhabited between 12,800 and 12,300 years ago. Usually all scientists can find from that far back are stones and bones. In this case, thanks to a peat layer that formed during the late Pleistocene era, organic matter was mummified and preserved as well...
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