Word: piers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Christopher has opted to install a ten-stage filtration system to purify the water for the patrons of his Porter Square eatery. He describes the matter collected in the filter as "what you would expect to see at the bottom of a pier--fuzzy, mangy...
...back. Though it was no Hurricane Andrew, at least a dozen people were killed and many thousands evacuated -- some from flooded rail stations and Wall Street lobbies. Hundreds of thousands lost power. Among the pervasive damage: windows sucked out of New York City skyscrapers and a century-old fishing pier swept away in Ocean Grove, New Jersey...
...lives were built, a pier...
Twelve-year-old Dan Phillips of Marshfield, Mass. triumphed over his competitor in the Pizza Pier hockey shootout by scoring four goals in 20 seconds from the blue-line...
...people to curse, fear, blame and remember. Andrew proved a most powerful, if petulant, child, rampaging across the Bahamas and the populous tip of southern Florida and into Louisiana's Cajun country, with strength enough to hoist trucks atop buildings, destroy houses and vaporize mobile homes, impale yachts on pier pilings and even strip paint off walls. With winds up to 164 m.p.h., Andrew proved more expensive than Hugo, which ripped through the Carolinas in 1989, and more destructive than any of the recent California earthquakes -- in sum, the costliest natural disaster in American history...